WARM RECEPTION
GIVEN TO INTRUDING GERMAN PLANE ON EAST COAST OF ENGLAND. ATTACK BY BRITISH PATROL. Ry Telegranh—Press Association —Copyright. (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) LONDON, November 13. An unidentified plane was sighted on the East Coast. British fighters took off and gunfire was heard as the plane disappeared in clouds. A later message states that the plane pursued was a German flying-boat. Three British fighters, patrolling above cloud level, sighted the intruder two thousand feet below and a few miles out to sea. They dived in pursuit and the leader followed the German into the clouds and raked him at a range of ninety feet, shooting off a piece of his wing-tip. The German replied with tracer bullets and escaped in clouds a few hundred feet above the sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 6
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130WARM RECEPTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 November 1939, Page 6
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