ATTACKS BY DAY
DIRECT HITS ON STEEL WORKS IN FRANCE i BATTLE AT HIGH ALTITUDE. SPITFIRES HEAVILY DEFEAT FOCKE-WULFS. LONDON, May 30. In daylight today Typhoon fighter-bombers scored direct hits on a steel works in France. All the planes returned. Supporting Spitfires had a battle with FockeWulf 190 s at a height of 20,000 feet over Le Havre. Four enemy planes were shot down. One British plane is missing. »
Four more enemy fighter-bombers were destroyed in a hit and run raid on a south-east coastal town. One was bagged by a fighter pilot and three by anti-aircraft guns. A number of people were killed, including children at a church service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 3
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