AIR WARFARE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1942, Page 4

AIR WARFARE

LANCASTER SHOOTS DOWN NAZI FIGHTER GERMANS USING NEW KIND OF FLAK. SAID TO RESEMBLE ROCKETS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) . RUGEY, July 19. A Lancaster bomber, returning from yesterday’s daylight raid on the Ruhr, was attacked by two German fighters near the Dutch coast. The bomber shot down one in flames. Boston bombers attacked objectives in the Lille-Bethune area this afternoon, while many squadrons of fighters swept the French coast. Full details of the bombing are not yet available, but it is known that power stations at Cheques and Mazingarbe were hit. British fighters destroyed one German fighter. Two Bostons and one fighter, are missing. A new kind of flak was used by the Germans against British aircraft off the Breton coast this afternoon, the Air Ministry news service says. Hurricanes, escorted by Spitfires, attacked two enemy ships off the island of Les Triadoz. A hit was scored on the bridge of one vessel. When a new type of mine-sweeper was attacked, a new and fierce anti-aircraft fire was encountered. A pilot said it came up vertically, was white and looked like rockets.