LONG-RANGE FIGHTERS
SUCCESS IN BAY OF BISCAY. TWO ENEMY BOMBERS DESTROYED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, March 22. The Fighter Commands latest longrange fighters, twin-engined Mosquitoes, scored their first victory in when two of them destroyed two Junkers 88s well out in the Bay of Biscay. Sixty miles west of the Gironde Estuary, one Mosquito spotted some aircraft low above the water. The British planes then went in to attack, and it was not long before two enemy aircraft had been destroyed and the remainder were making for the French coast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1943, Page 4
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95LONG-RANGE FIGHTERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1943, Page 4
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