ON WESTERN FRONT.
I AIR CATTLE NEAR VERDUN. ENEMY PATROLS REPULSED. (British Official Wireless.) Received April 24, 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, April 23. The headquarters of the British air forces ill France announce: “'To-day. British and German fighter patrols fought in an indecisive action in the neighbourhood of Verdun. One Messerschmitt 110 is believed to have been shot down. One of our aircraft was set on fire by enemy action. The pilot escaped by a parachute.” The French official evening communique states: “There was fairly brisk activity of artillery on both sides between the Moselle and the Blics. Enemy patrols have been repulsed to the west of the Vosges. There was an exchange of rifle fire along the banks of the Rhine.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 9
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121ON WESTERN FRONT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 124, 24 April 1940, Page 9
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