SPITFIRES ATTACKING ENEMY E-BOATS OFF THE DUTCH COAST —An artist’s impression of an R.A.F. surprise attack on German E-boats by Spitfire pilots who each selected an enemy vessel as he zoomed overhead. In a final attack they left one E-boat on fire and sinking. The E-boats tried last-minute evasive tactics and put up a fierce light gun resistance, but this went wide of the attacking Spitfires.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 4
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66SPITFIRES ATTACKING ENEMY E-BOATS OFF THE DUTCH COAST—An artist’s impression of an R.A.F. surprise attack on German E-boats by Spitfire pilots who each selected an enemy vessel as he zoomed overhead. In a final attack they left one E-boat on fire and sinking. The E-boats tried last-minute evasive tactics and put up a fierce light gun resistance, but this went wide of the attacking Spitfires. Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 4
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