FOUR RAIDERS
ENGAGED BY BRITISH FLYING=BOAT DEFEATED AND DRIVEN OFF. BELIEVED TO HAVE CRASHED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, June 16. An Air Ministry communique states: “Yesterday a Catalina fly-ing-boat of the Coastal Command, while on an Atlantic patrol off Gibraltar, sighted four enemy aircraft attempting to attack shipping. The Catalina engaged each in turn and all were seen to be damaged before they broke off the) engagement. The Catalina, which sustained no casualties, received only superficial damage and resumed its patrol. “It will be recalled that four enemy aircraft were reported to have crashed in Portugal yesterday, and it is considered probably that they were the aircraft damaged in this engagement.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1941, Page 5
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