BOMBERS & FIGHTERS
SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON ENEMY SHIPS AND OTHER TARGETS. THREE BRITISH PLANES MISSING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, November 27. The following Air Ministry communique has just been issued: “A formation of Coastal Command Beauforts, with a fighter escort, attacked an enemy 'supply ship off the Hague this morning. The ship was bombed from a low level, hit and left sinking. “Our fighters, including some carrying bombs, attacked an enemy convoy near the coast of Normandy this afternoon and sank a supply ship and two anti-aircraft ships. Two enemy fighters were encountered on the way home and were shot down into the Channel.
“Enemy aircraft on the ground at Bieck Aerodrome and shipping at Boulogne were also attacked by our fighters during the day. “Three of our fighters are missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1941, Page 6
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