NIGHT FIGHTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1942, Page 4

NIGHT FIGHTING

DESTRUCTION OF AIR RAIDERS ON BRITAIN AND OVER AERODROMES IN PRANCE. FEATS OF ALLIED PILOTS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, May .1. The enemy plane shot down by Wing Commander Max Aitxen (son of Lord Beaverbrook), during last night’s Nazi' raids on Britain, was one of Germany’s' latest bombers, a Dornier 217, says the Air Ministry News Service. A Czech pilot in Wing Commander Aitken’s squadron destroyed two enemy planes out at sea, and shared with another pilot from the same squadron in the destruction of a Dornier 217. In each case the raiders blew up and sprinkled their wreckage over the waters. This is the second occasion on which a Czech pilot has shot down two raiders in one night. Two of the three raiders which were shot down over their own bases in Northern France were destroyed by a night Hurricane pilot, who shot down a Dornier 217 over its own aerodrome on Monday night. His first victim last night was also a Dornier. It was just taking off from Rennes Aerodrome, in Brittany. The Hurricane pilot then flew to Dinard Aerodrome, where he, saw an enemy bomber taking off. He followed it as far as the coast. As it headed for the Channel, probably intending to raid Britain, the Hurricane sent it diving into the sea off Dinard. NAZI OFFER MODIFICATION OF BOMBING DESIRED. GENEVA, May 1. The Berlin correspondent of the “Geneva Journal” says it js semiofficially announced that Germany will call off the bombing of English towns if the Royal Air Force changes its methods of bombing German cities.