AIR ENCOUNTERS
NAZI FIGHTER & BOMBER DESTROYED ONE BRITISH PLANE MISSING. COASTAL COMMAND ATTACKS LE HAVRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, April 22. An Air Ministry communique describes encounters between R.A.F. fighter patrols and enemy aircraft yesterday, in which one enemy fighter was destroyed and from which one R.A.F. fighter is missing, and the destruction last night by a R.A.F. night fighter of a four-engined German bomber, as it was about to land at an aerodrome in Northern France. The bomber disintegrated in the air And pieces of it lodged in the wing of the R.A.F. aircraft, while others made holes in the windscreen and the fuselage. At dusk last night, aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked the docks at Le Havre and bombs were seen to burst among buildings on the quay. No aircraft are missing from this operation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 April 1941, Page 6
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