AXIS FLOAT-PLANES
DESTROYED BY BEAUFIGHTER. TWO BRITISH AIRCRAFT MISSING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, September 1. Early yesterday afternoon, three Arrado float-planes took off from their base in Occupied France. It was thentask to intercept R.A.F. Coastal Command U-boat hunters, Wellingtons. Whitleys and Sunderlands. Instead they met a Coastal Command Beaufighter, which in less than two minutes sent two of them crashing into the sea. From other daylight patrols yesterday, one Fighter Command and one Coastal Command aircraft are missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1942, Page 3
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84AXIS FLOAT-PLANES Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1942, Page 3
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