AIR FIGHTING
OVER THE CHANNEL SPITFIRES ENGAGE ENEMY AIRCRAFT. CREW OF FLYING FORTRESS RESCUED AT SEA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, June 17. Canadian Spitfires, in the course of a sweep this afternoon over Belgium, shot down three Focke-Wulfs in a series of combats at between 22,000 and 6,000 feet, between Yores and the coast, says the Air Ministry. The Spitfires first encountered a formation, of about 30 enemy planes, and after a dog fight with them, 20 more were soon seen. A Spitfire wing immediately attacked and scattered the enemy formation. During the day's operations wo lost three fighters. Tlie crew of a Flying Fortress, forced down in the North Sea when returning, badly damaged, from a raid on Kiel, was rescued by British torpedo-boats, after spending ten hours in life-craft in a heavy sea, 90 miles from the coast of England. Two of the airmen were wounded, but not seriously.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 June 1943, Page 4
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