NEW MESSERSCHMITT
GERMANY’S LATEST FIGHTER. OUTCLASSED BY BRITISH PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Juno 2. The Messerschmitt 109 F, the newest type of German fighter, the qualities of which have been much vaunted by the enemy, has proved little more effective against the fighters of the Royal Air Force than lhe types which were so outstandingly defeated in the Battle of Britain last autumn. This newest German fighter has only recently made its appearance in the skies over Britain. On May 26 six of them were chased bad; to France and two damaged by two Hurrivanes, on May 28 one was definitely shot down and others seriously damaged, and tonight there is news of another being shot down over the Channel. During Monday evening a Junkers 88 was also shot down oft' the north-west coast shortly before dark.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 5
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