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WIDESPREAD DAMAGE

I 0 I DONE BY POLISH FIGHTER SQUADRON ATTACKS ON PLANES & SHIPS IN CHANNEL & NORTHERN FRANCE. BIG STEAMER LEFT BURNING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, .11.28 a.m.) RUGBY, May 16. - Members of the Polish squadron of the Fighter Command did widespread damage when, piloting three pairs of Spitfires, they swept•sover the Channel and Northern France in daylight yesterday. They skimmed fields and hedges- at high speed, picking out their victims, and all returned within a few minutes of each other. Their exploits included shooting down a large three-engined troop-carrier in flames, machine-gun-ning another troop-carrier which was taxiing across an aerodrome, setting a two-funnelled steamer on fire, ma-chine-gunning two other ships and an E-boat and machine-gunning six Messerschmitts 109, which were apparently filling up at a petrol station on an aerodrome.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6

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133

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6

WIDESPREAD DAMAGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6

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