TWO OF THREE NAZI PLANES DOWN
COMPANY RAIDS FAIL ON WEST FRONT FRENCH REPULSE GERMAN TROOPS (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 9, 3 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 8. The British Air Ministry has announced that three German aircraft were engaged in combat over the North Sea by wo aircraft of the Royal Air Force. The first enem> al,cla ' was seen to crash in the water and sink while the second v as seen to fall, apparently out of control. The combat iu i u third German plane terminated when the ammunition was exhausted. Photographic and visual reconnaissance over north-west Germany was carried out by a number of Royal Air Force aircraft’yesterday. All but one machine returned satcJy to the base. . „ „ n , The Paris correspondent of the Associated 1 ress of C.iiea Britain says that deadly machine-gun fire repulsed German thrusts on three sectors of the Western Front. The Germans used full companies which the French hurled back. A night communique states that the usual artilleij activity was experienced.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20091, 10 November 1939, Page 11
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