MASS ATTACKS
ON OCCUPIED FRANCE MADE BY SPITFIRES FROM LOW LEVEL. ONLY ONE MACHINE LOST. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. The Air Ministry news service says that the only Spitfire lost yesterday out of nearly 200 which mass-attacked, from a low level, targets in North France was brought down by an obstruction. Other Spitfires, which met considerable flak but remained undamaged, machine-gunned two goods engines, set fire to two wagons, attacked warehouses, a radio station and a transformer station, machine-gunned a troop-occupied house, soldiers on an aerodrome near Saint Valery, a watertower, gunposts, shelters and huts ; Our planes also bombed a factory in Dieppe and set fire to a building hidden in a wood.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1942, Page 4
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121MASS ATTACKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1942, Page 4
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