FIVE SHOT DOWN
SEVEN PLACES ESCAPE RAIDERS OF NAZI NAVY CLAIM MADE IN BERLIN DAMAGE TO BATTLESHIP (Reed. Sept. 5, 2-40 p.m.) i, NEW YORK, Sept. 4. The London correspondent of the United Press of America in a further report concerning the bombardment by British planes of the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven, states that several direct hits were scored, severely damaging two battleships. The British Air Force suffered some casualties A German short-wave radio message asserts that five of 12 British jilanes attacking Wilhelmshaven and Cuxhaven were shot down by antiaircraft battferies. The others escaped over the Dutch border.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20035, 6 September 1939, Page 7
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