BAD DAY FOR NAZIS
FIGHT BETWEEN BOMBERS AND FLYING BOAT spectacular combat ENEMY'S LOST MACHINES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 4. The battle of the Sunderland flying-boat with six Junkers is stated to' have been one of the most spectacular fought over the North Sea. It was the first time a flying-boat had been in combat. The Sunderland earlier found an enemy plane shadowing the convoy and engaged the German, which made off. An hour later, four Junkers appeared. Gunfire from the ships frustrated bombing and the Germans made off. Then six Junkers appeared and two attacked the Sunderland, whose guns blazed and drove off the Germans. The other four Junkers camo in arid sent a hail of bullets past the Sunderland, whose tail-gunner held his fire until the Junkers were a hundred yards distant and then fired with all four guns. The- leading Junker spun down into the sea in flames.-An-other swerved away and later landed in Norway. A third fruitlessly bombed the Sunderland. Soon the rest withdrew.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1940, Page 6
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