RAID ON BASE
BRITISH PATROLS GERMAN ISLAND DEPOT USE OF MACHINE GUNS ALL PLANES RETURN (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Nov. 29, 3 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 28. The Admiralty announces: “This afternoon one of our long-range fighter patrols which had been sent to search for enemy mine-laying seaplanes reconnoitred the seaplane base at Borkun, an island of Germany in the Friesian group, and there found and attacked with machine-gun fire three of these seaplanes. “Our fighters were engaged by heavy anti-aircraft fire, to which they replied. All our aircraft returned safely.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 7
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92RAID ON BASE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20108, 30 November 1939, Page 7
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