RAIDING PLANES
SHOT DOWN BY BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS TWO RECENT SUCCESSES. ATTACKING MACHINES DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.3 a.m.) RUGBY. August 11. Two recent successes by British merchant ships, in bringing down attacking enemy aircraft were revealed today. "An aircraft was in sight only three cr four seconds before it attacked.” said an officer of the first ship. "Bombs were dropped on the bridge, which was demolished and caught fire. As the aircraft (lew off, we opened lire with our defensive armament and hit it first shot. It crashed into the sea and the last I saw of it was a wing tip sticking above the water." The captain of the second ship said: "When an aircraft was just on us I opened fire with a Lewis gun. We fired about fifty shots and I could hear them pinging against the sides of the machine. Soon the aeroplane caught fire and I heard next day that a German aircraft had been seen, in the water.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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