FLEET AIR ARM
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS ENEMY TRANSPORT SUNK. DORNIER AND HEINKEL PLANES DESTROYED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 18. An Admiralty communique states: “During the last two clays, highly successful operations have been carried out by aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm. Enemy shipping was attacked off Bergen on April 16. One transport was sunk and in addition a submarine on the surface was attacked and one hit was obtained. Our aircraft on April 17 repeatedly engaged enemy aircraft endeavouring to attack ships returning from the bombardment of Stavanger Aerodrome. One Heinkel and one Dornier flyingboat were shot down, while two more Heinkels and another Dornier were damaged. All our aircraft returned safely. “The cruiser announced yesterday to have been damaged by air attack after th<* bombardment of Stavanger Aerodrome has now reached its base.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 5
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