ACTION AT SEA
ENEMY BOMBER SHOT DOWN SUCCESS OF NORWEGIAN TORPEDO-BOAT. ADMIRALTY REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.10 a.m.) ’ RUGBY, September 3. An Admiralty communique states: “A Norwegian motor torpedoboat, co-operating with British naval forces, shot down a German aircraft into the sea.
“The Norwegian motor torpedo-boat was in the vicinity of a merchant vessel when both were attacked by enemy dive-bombers, which were at once engaged and their formation broken. It was then observed that the aircraft which had unsuccessfully attacked the merchant ship were passing overhead They wore at once engaged and several hits with tracer bullets were seen, one of the aircraft then side-slipped badly and was seen to be on fire. It succeeded in flattening out, but continued to lose height. It touched the water once, rose a few feet, and then crashed into the sea.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 5
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