CONVOY JOINS IN
FIGHT BETWEEN BOMBER & MESSERSCHMITTS ONE ENEMY FIGHTER DIRECTLY HIT. TWO OTHERS DRIVEN OFF. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.58 a.m.) RUGBY, June 13. An Admiralty communique stated; “When a Blenheim aircraft of. the Coastal Command .was attacked by Messerschmitt 109’s in the vicinity of 'one of our convoys last evening, the [enemy aircraft were at once stronglyengaged by the anti-aircraft guns of the ships and the convoy escorts, Ono of the enemy planes received a direct hit and when last seen was on fire and losing height. The other two enemy fighters were driven oil'. "A report from the senior officer of the convoy states that the Blenheim' put up a wonderful fight and was not I damaged.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1941, Page 6
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