BOMBERS SHOT DOWN
BATTLE EVENTS DESCRIBED BY EYEWITNESSES.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.7 a.m.) RUGBY. August 11
An Air Ministry communique, issued early in the afternoon, announced the shooting down of six German aircraft. Another communique is awaited.
Unconfirmed eyewitness statements concerning today's battles describe the shooting down of two Junkers divebombers within three minutes by British fighters, when the Germans attacked a convoy off the south-east coast this afternoon. The first machine is described as preparing to dive when
a Spitfire appeared and an exchange of machine-gun bullets resulted in the German diving straight into the sea, from a height of 2000 feet. A minute later another Junkers attacked and again, according to these accounts, was challenged by a Spitfire and. after a short fight among the clouds, the German pilot was seen to bale out. his machine crashing on the foreshore rocks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 5
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