FIERCE AIR BATTLE
HELIGOLAND BIGHT INVADED BY BRITISH BOMBERS Strong German Fighter Forces Encountered TWELVE ENEMY MACHINES SHOT DOWN SEVEN UNITS OF ATTACKING SQUADRONS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR (By Telegraph.—Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Ray. 12.5 pan.) LONDON, December lb. An Air Ministry communique states: “Royal Air Force bomber formations, searching’ Heligoland Eight lor enemy warships, encountered strong German lighter forces and a heice battle ensued, in which twelve Messerschmitts were shot down and seven British bombers are unaccounted for. A German communique claims that 44 British bombeis participated, 34 of which were shot down, during a terriiic battle. The German communique admits the loss oi . t , wo ,^ e ™F? r planes, the crews of which parachuted, and adds that the British unit was the largest that has ever attacked Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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130FIERCE AIR BATTLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 December 1939, Page 6
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