FRENCH PLANE
SHOT DOWN BV SPANSARDS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN BOUND FOR GIBRALTAR. MEMBERS OF CREW KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) GIBRALTAR, July 1. A French plane was shot down by Spanish anti-aircraft guns at La Linea. It crashed into the sea in Hames. The bodies of two French aviators were extricated, but. the others sank with the plane. The opinion is expressed that the plane was manoeuvring' to land at Gibraltar and inadvertently infringed Spanish territory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1940, Page 5
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81FRENCH PLANE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1940, Page 5
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