HUNS DESTROYED
IN RUNNING FIGHT OVER CHANNEL ACHIEVEMENTS OF WELLINGTON AIRMAN. LEADER. OB' NORWEGIAN FIGHTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, February 16. Fighters escorting Liberators home from the Dunkirk raid had a running fight with Focke-Wulf 190 s from the vicinity of Dunkirk tq„ within sight of England. Wing Commander P. G. Jameson, of Wellington, D.F.C. and Bar, led a Norwegian fighter wing which destroyed seven Focke-W.ulfs and damaged two. Wing Commander Jameson shot down two. “Several of the Huns destroyed went down in flames and others dived intothe sea,” said Wing Commander Jameson. “Altogether the wing saw forty to fifty Huns either attacking Liberators or flying home.” Wing Commander Jameson, a survivor from the aircraft-carrier Glorious, was picked up by a Norwegian tramp after being for three days without food or water on a Carley float. He has now destroyed at least nine aircraft, including two German flyingboats in Norway. R.A.F. fighters over Northern France last night destroyed an enemy bomber. There are no reports of enemy activity over Britain last night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1943, Page 4
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