DIFFERING VERSIONS OF AIR BATTLE
(British Official Wirelsss) (Received 5, 12.45 pjn.) RUGBY, Jan. 4. A discrepancy i s remarked in London between the first German account ol Tuesday's action over the North Sea, in which two British bombers were lost, and the later German versions of the engagement. The original German story described how “three British planes were attacked by a swarm of Messerschmitts, and, after a short engagement, all were shot down." In a.later German statement, however, it was claimed that “on the German side only four planes took part --not 12, as British propaganda asserts in order to construe a numerical superiority.” Thus, between the issue of the first and subsequent accounts, a “swarm” has become only four.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 5, 6 January 1940, Page 8
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