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ENEMY WIRELESS STATION AT CHERBOURG ATTACK BY SPITFIRES. HEAVY EXPLOSION CAUSED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.50 p.m.) RUGBY, August 25. Three Spitfires, flying near Cherbourg on Monday evening, attacked the wireless station with their cannon and machine-guns. A machine-gun which replied from the ground was silenced by the Spitfires as they dived from only 400 feet. Their fire caused a violent explosion on the station and as they left they saw it enveloped in a white pall of smoke.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 6
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83ROUGHLY HANDLED Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 6
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