DRIVEN OFF

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 267, 4 December 1939, Page 3

DRIVEN OFF

NAZI AIR ATTACKS EIGHT PLANES INVOLVED R l*OllV, Dee. I. In connection, with the engagement between patrols of the coastal command of the Royal Air Force, reported \esterday, in which eight- German Dornicr bombers were encountered and one sliot down, the others retiring. [t is now learnt in .Hmdon that the engagement, which resulted in the destruction of one Dornicr, 13 minutes, and that three other aircraft of the coastal command were in separate combats with tin* remaining seven Dormers and in every instance the enemy was driven off. When the pilot of a northern coastal aircraft intercepted two Dornicr flying together he selected his immediate objective and carried out four live attacks. The enemy’s rear gunner was hit and was seen to be dragged fre in the cockpit by another .member of tlm crew who took bjs place. The enemy pilot, however, made off into the clouds. Tim British machine then turned to ( Heal with the other German, who followed his companion after receiving a few well aimed bursts. An hour later, another British aircraft of the same squadron also sighted a Dornicr. _ It. too, disappeared in a doiid bank when a number of rounds were fired at it. Tim final engagement was between a British flying boat and a Doruiei. flic British aircraft twice encountered the Dornicr and on each occasion the Dornicr was driven off by guiffire.