SECOND THOUGHTS
GERMAN REPORTS OF NORTH SEA BATTLE. “SWARM” OF MESSERSCHMITTS BECOMES ONLY FOUR. (British Official Wireless.) . (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, January 4. A discrepancy is remarked in London between the first German account of Tuesday’s action over the North Sea in which two British bombers were lost, and later German versions of the engagement. The original German story, described how "three British planes were attacked by a swarm of Messerschmitts and after a short engagement all were shot down.” In a later German statement, however, it was claimed that “On- the German side only four planes took part—. not twelve as British propaganda asserts in order to construe a numerical superiority.” Thus between the issue of the first and subsequent accounts a “swarm had become only four.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1940, Page 6
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