NOTED GERMAN AIRMAN
KILLED IN EARLY FIGHTING IN ALGERIA. SHOT DOWN IN JUNKERS 88. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON; December 16. When a Hurricane fightei’ shot down a Junkers 88 during the first days of the occupation of Algeria, Gruppen Kommender von Roth, one of Germany’s most outstanding airmen, was killed. Von Roth, who was making a personal survey of the situation, commanded a bomber group in Tunisia. He participated in the Battle of Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1942, Page 4
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