80 GERMAN FIGHTERS
DESTROYED BY AMERICANS
DURING DAYLIGHT ATTACK
ON KIEL.
AGAINST LOSS OF' 20 BOMBERS
LONDON, June 17
It is now known that in the recent American raid m on Kiel and Bremen. 200 Gorman fighters challenged the smaller of the two formations of Flying Fortresses which carried out the raid, when 26 bombers of both formations were lost. The smaller force which went io Kiel destroyed four fighters for every bomber lost and enabled the major attacking force on Bremen to carry om. its raid almost without fighter opposition. Twenty of the American planes were lost over Kiel. Only 25 German fighters were encountered over Bremen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1943, Page 4
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