TRAWLER'S “BAG”
TWO ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED AND TWO OTHERS DAMAGED. AT EXPENDITURE OF THREE SHELLS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 24. An Admiralty communique states that when the trawler Arctic Trapper was attacked by enemy aircraft this afternoon she shot down two enemy bombers into the sea and probably damaged two others. The trawler was machine-gunned by enemy fighters, which were escorting a force of German bombers. The first shell burst between two enemy bombers, and it is probable that the aircraft received damage. The second shell scored a direct hit on another bomber, which crashed into the sea. The third shell burst very close to another bomber, which was seen to turn over and come down in the sea. There were no casualties in the Arctic Trapper.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1940, Page 5
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128TRAWLER'S “BAG” Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1940, Page 5
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