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NAZI AIR FORMATION AT MURMANSK FIFTEEN OUT OF 50 PLANES BROUGHT DOWN. ■ TWELVE OTHERS DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) vRUGBY, April 21. Striking evidence of Russian air superiority is given in a Kuibyshev message, describing a German attempt at a mass raid on Murmansk. The Russians brought down fifteen raiding planes and damaged twelve more of the fifty planes which took part. Only one managed to break through and drop bombs. There was no damage to military objectives. Several Russian planes were damaged, but none were brought down. A supplementary communique states: “On one sector of the central front our troops occupied an important key defence position. The enemy threw reserves into the battle. During the last two days 1,300 German troops have been killed in this sector. We captured booty, including 19 guns, 99 machineguns, 80,000 rounds of ammunition and a great number of rifles.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1942, Page 3
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