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IN DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY PLANES. AIR MINISTRY REPORTS. (Received This Dhy. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. An Air Ministry announcement states: "So tar today the K.A.F. has destroyed 35 enemy planes and probably a further six over the Dunkirk area. Eight of our fighters are missing.” An earlier Air Ministry anouncement states: “The R.A.F.. between dawn and 7 p.m. yesterday, destroyed or seriously damaged 78 German planes over Dunkirk. This is a R.A.F. record One British squadron shot down eight planes during the day. Sixteen of out planes have not returned.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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94NEW RECORD SET Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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