REMARKABLE SHOT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1940, Page 5

REMARKABLE SHOT

MESSERSCHMITT BROUGHT DOWN FROM HEIGHT OF NEARLY FIVE MILES. ACHIEVEMENT BY DOVER BATTERY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, November 1. The story of the destruction of an enemy fighter over Britain today is told by the Air Ministry news service. The Nazi machine, which came down in flames, was a Messerschmitt 109 fighter-bomber, flying nearly five miles high over Dover. The Nazi raider was only a white speck in the clear blue sky when the gunners opened fire, after firing a few rounds, the battery scored a direct hit and the Messerschmitt spiralled down in flames from 24,000'feet into the sea. DORNIER CAUGHT NAPPING. At almost exactly the same time an air duel was going on between a Hurricane and a Dornier, only fifty feet above the water. A sergeant-pilot had been patrolling off the East Coast with two Hurricanes, which were going home, when he sighted below him a Dornier 17 bomber skimming over the sea at fifty feet. Chasing the bomber for ten miles, the Hurricane pilot caught it up and fired several bursts, when the sergeant had to make for his base. The Dornier was last seen far out over the North Sea, limping for home severely damaged. ALERTS IN LONDON ENEMY DAYLIGHT RAIDS. LONDON, November 1. This morning there were two short alerts in the London area. Four people were killed and a number injured when a bomb fell on a residential district. Several bombs were dropped on the outskirts of London. When a single raider flew low over a south-east town it dropped two salvos of bombs, but the only casualties were to farm animals. Late this morning 40 enemy machines. crossed the south-east coast. They were ..forced to fly high by the heavy anti-aircraft barrage, and when British fighters appeared, the formation scattered and made for home. This afternoon enemy planes were 'over Merseyside and the east coast of Scotland. DAYLIGHT ATTACK MERCHANT SHIP BOMBED OFF NORWAY. ONE BRITISH PLANE MISSING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.35 p.m.) RUGBY, November 1. “During daylight operations yesterday aircraft of the Coastal Command scored direct hits on a merchant ship off Norway. One of these aircraft is missing.