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MADE BY FIGHTER SQUADRONS OVER THE FRENCH COAST IN DAYLIGHT. GERMAN PLANE DESTROYED & OTHERS DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY. May 29. Squadrons of the R.A.F. Fighter Command carried out an offensive sweep over the French coast yesterday, shooting down one of the . latest German fighters, a Messerschmitt 109 F, and damaging several more. Messerschmitts were seen below the British fighters, whose pilots report that the Spitfires were definitely superior to their foes. They returned to their bases without a bullet hole.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 5
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88BOLD SWEEP Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1941, Page 5
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