HEAVY GUNS
USED AGAINST BRITISH AIR PATROLS WATCHING ENEMY SEAPLANE BASES. WORK NOT INTERRUPTED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, March 3. While on a standing patrol over enemy seaplane bases last night, an aircraft of the R.A.F. Bomber Command encountered intense fire from'heavy caliblr.e enemy guns, working in close cooperation -with searchlights. The Germans. however, failed to prevent the patrol carrying out its work and the presence of British aircraft over Sylt. Norderney and Borkum again enforced a strict blackout. On one occasion an enemy twin-en-gined aircraft was seen in the distance, momentarily in the glare of searchlights. which previously had flashed across one of the British bombers. On such patrols each aircraft flies something more than 800 miles.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1940, Page 5
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