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MESSERSCHMITTS IN LIBYA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, March 24. A Cairo communique states that in the latest raid on Martuba Kittyhawk fighters fended off Messerschmitt fighters which sought to intervene. One Messerschmitt was attacked just after taking off from its aerodrome and was sent diving to its base. This is claimed as a “probable.” One Messerschmitt which succeeded in getting almost within firing range of the Boston bombers was pounced on by a Kittyhawk, whose first burst caused the German aircraft to explode and disintegrate. Another Messerschmitt was shot down from astern, as it was making a rear attack on a British fighter.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1942, Page 4
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