ENEMY SHIP
TORPEDOED “GOOD & HARD” OFF NORWAY BY NEW ZEALAND BOMBER. MASTERTON MAN IN CREW. (By Telegraph—Press' Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, April 27. A New Zealand Hampden tor-pedo-bomber squadron has sunk another medium-sized German merchantman off the south-west Norwegian coast. The Hampdens, which were escorted by Beaufighters, sighted two merchantmen and three escort ships. A Hampden with an English skipper and Flight Sergeants P. Booth (Wellington), D. Nelson (Masterton) and L. Lander (New Plymouth) as members of its crew, immediately attacked. Sergeant Lander said: “We met heavy flak from one merchantman and light flak from a destroyer, but our torpedo hit the merchantman good and hard. It was enveloped by an explosive plume 200 feet high, followed by much smoke.” This New Zealand squadron’s kills now total some fifteen ships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 4
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133ENEMY SHIP Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1943, Page 4
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