BRITISH AIRMEN
SUCCESSES IN RUSSIA. COURAGE OF RUSSIAN PILOTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 24. Flying Officer Clark, an Australian pilot who recently returned to Australia, stated, according to an agency message, that the R.A.F. wing in Russia during two months’ operations, lost only one pilot, while the wing’s bag of Nazi planes was 17 destroyed, nine probably destroyed and six damaged. Clark added that the Russian fighter pilots had the courage of lions. “They cheerfully dash into combat though out-numbered ten to one,” he said. “If they run out of ammunition during a dogfight they almost invariably ram' the enemy plane and then bale. We were told that many Russian women, were pilots and some had shot down German planes.”
AIR ATTACK ON MURMANSK
REPORTED BY GERMANS
LONDON, June 24.
The German news agency reported that waves of German bombers and dive-bombers yesterday attacked Murmansk. Bombs hit the quay and also the railway from the harbour. Incendiaries set fire to a ship repair works and many other places. A pall of smoke obscured the town throughout the day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 June 1942, Page 3
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