ENEMY CONVOY
ATTACKED OFF DUTCH COAST SEVERAL SHIPS DAMAGED. TOLL TAKEN OF GERMAN AIRCRAFT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY. June 27. Beaufighters, escorted by Spitfires, teday attacked south-bound enemy shipping off the Dutch coast. Three escort vessels were prchfibly damaged and one supply ship was possibly damaged. A Beaufighter observer said there was heavy flak and accurate observation was difficult, but dense smoke was seen pouring from two r.f the armed escorts. A Beaufighter pilot,' who reported (■hat he hit the superstructure of an escort vessel, said large chunks of wreckage flew up. Another pilot stated that he raked two merchantmen with cannon-fire and then attacked again with his guns from 100 feet. Spitfires reported that they hit every enemy fighter seen near the convoy. It is officially stated that our fighters destroyed two enemy fighters and severely damaged others. Another enemy plane was destroyed off the south-east coast of England this morning. One of our planes is missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1943, Page 4
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