GERMAN ACE KILLED
(Rec. 8.25 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. The German High Command announced that Major Pflanz was shot down and killed in combat with Royal Air Force Fighters over France on July 31. He had the previous day scored his fifty-first. success. The British Air Ministry News Service recalls that on July 31 Spitfires escorted Bostons to bomb a German fighter base at Abbeville. Hectic dogfights occurred between 100 Royal Air Force and German fighters over the Somme area. Eleven German planes were destroyed for the loss of eight British planes. Major Pflanz was killed in one of these fights.
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Southland Times, Issue 24821, 13 August 1942, Page 5
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101GERMAN ACE KILLED Southland Times, Issue 24821, 13 August 1942, Page 5
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