SCOUTING FLIGHT
NORTH-WEST GERMANY ONE PLANE MISSING (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 28. The Air Ministry announced last night that a successful reconnaissance of north-west Germany was carried out by Royal Air Force aircraft on Wednesday. One of the British aircraft failed to return. A Berlin message quotes a German High Command communique stating: "Two British planes attempted to fly over the German coast. A lighter shot down one and anti-aircraft gunners drove of! the other.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 8
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79SCOUTING FLIGHT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20132, 29 December 1939, Page 8
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