AMERICAN ARMOURED DIVISIONS
BEST EQUIPPED AHD TRAINED (Rec. 12.20 a.m.) ' NEW YORK, August 26. Tho United States has the bestequipped and best-trained armoured divisions in the world, according to Major-general Scott, commander of the armoured forces at Fort Knox, Kentucky, who has just returned from North Africa. He said: We have more armoured vehicles, more fire power, and self-propelling cannon than the Germans or any other nation. We have the most modern system in the world.
NORWAY IN DIEPPE RAIDS FOURTEEN ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. noon.) ■ RUGBY, Aug. 26. The Norwegian air force announces that a total of 14 enemy planes were destroyed by the Norwegians in the raids on Dieppe. This total included sis of Germany’s latest Dornier 217 bombers. Four enemy planes were probably destroyed, and another 13 damaged. Two Norwegian airmen were killed. A 19 years’ old pilot shot down two German planes and probably destroyed one. Ho was the youngest pilot participating. *
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Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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159AMERICAN ARMOURED DIVISIONS Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 5
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