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ON ENEMY TANKER IN CHANNEL GERMAN SAILORS BLOWN INTO THE AIR. WHIRLWINDS AND SPITFIRES IN ACTION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, May 23.
During the weekend the Fighter Command kept up its attacks on enemy transport in occupied countries and around their coasts. Several German sailors were blown into the air by an explosion after a direct hit on a tanker, one of four ships attacked by Whirlwind bombers and Spitfires in the Channel today, when they were steaming between Guernsey and Herm. An armed trawler was also severely damaged. One Whirlwind had an engine put out of action by flak, but the plane was brought home and landed safely after a journey of some 90 miles. Several days ago the same pilot flew 130 miles back from the coast of Brittany with a two-foot hole in the starboard wing of his plane, and early yesterday morning he came back 70 miles from Cherbourg with a riddled fuselage. Another convoy was surprised by Typhoons as it entered Flushing Harbour early today and one vessel was left blazing. The squadron leader who led the formation said: “The whole show lasted for only three or four minutes. The ship was a smoking, steaming and flaming mass as we turned away. We were followed by heavy gunfire from Flushing for a long Way. but all got back safely.” A wing commander had an adventurous hour and a quarter tour in a Mosquito over North-West France last night, in the course of which he destroyed a locomotive and damaged six others. BUILDINGS WRECKED
BY GERMAN SNEAK RAIDERS. CASUALTIES IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND. (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON. May 23. German fighter-bombers today made a hit and run raid on a south-east coast town High explosive bombs caused casualties and wrecked two hotels, three public-houses and other buildings. Additional sneak raiders bombed a coastal town in the south of England. They hit two large hotels and one shop, damaged residential property and caused a number of casualties. Rescue parties are still working. Two enemy machines were shot down during these attacks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 4
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