NOTABLE WEEK
SPLENDID WORK OF ROYAL AIR FORCE SERIES OF REMARKABLE ACHIVEMENTS. WITHOUT LOSS OF SINGLE PLANE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, December 10. Unofficial air authorities here point out that last week has been one of the most successful since the outbreak of war for the Royal Air Force. During the last seven days there has been a daring and successful raid on Heligoland, three enemy submarines have been attacked of which two were sunk and the third almost certainly damaged, if not sunk, a successful reconnaissance flight has been made by the Royal Air Force ovei north-east Germany, enemy reconnaissance aircraft have been, successfully attacked and forced to turn back after at least five had been hit by British fighters, and finally, among the outstanding achievements, there was the dramatic rescue work by Coastal Command pilots who brought ships to the help of seven seamen clinging to rafts. And not one British plane has been lost as a result of these activities.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1939, Page 7
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