Fifty-three Enemy Machines Shot Down
DURING BOMBING ATTACKS ON SHIPPING SIXTEEN BRITISH FIGHTER PILOTS MISSING Yesterday was a day of smashing’ success for the R.A.F., states a Daventry broadcast. Fifty-three Germans planes were shot down in attacks on shipping in the Channel. An Air Ministry and /Admiralty communique states that attacks were launched against a convoy by a large number of German dive bombers, accompanied by single and twin-engined fighters. As each attack developed the planes were heavily engaged by squadrons of R.A.F. fighters. The full extent of the losses inflicted on the enemy is not yet known. Sixteen British fighter pilots are reported missing. German motor torpedo-boats also attacked the convoy. One torpedo-boat was sunk and another was damaged.
Three coastal vessels in the convoy were struck by torpedoes and sunk. The air attacks on the shipping- caused considerable damage. It was not yet possible to ascertain the full extent of it. A number of survivors and injured had already been landed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 5
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