GREAT AIR BATTLE
ITALIANS SUFFER HEAVY DEFEAT ACCORDING TO SPANISH LOYALISTS. SEVENTEEN FIAT MACHINES & BOMBER LOST. By Telegraph—Press Association. Copyright. (Recd This Day. 12.55 p.m.) BARCELONA. May 24. According to the loyalists, the Italians met their aerial masters over the Guadalajara Mountains, when seventeen of their Fiat machines were shot down over the Loyalist lines, and a Savoia bomber crashed in no man’s land. Nearly two hundred fighters participated in the battle, which lasted for an hour and was the greatest of the campaign. The loyalists lost three machines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1938, Page 8
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