FIGHTER SWEEPS
OVER FRANCE & BELGIUM. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, June 1. It is learned in London that British fighters made four sweeps over occupied France and Belgium this morning and afternoon. The first squadrons swept the Cherbourg Peninsula and the Calais-Boulogne area. In the early afternoon many squadrons, including Hurricane bombers, went to Bruges, where the docks were bombed. There were many combats with German fighters in this attack. Two enemy planes were destroyed. Later in the afternoon, a small force swept the Dieppe-Abbeville area. Nine British fighters -are missing from these operations, but the pilot of one is safe.
Further sweeps were made tonight There are no details -yet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 June 1942, Page 4
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