SIGNAL VICTORY
WON BY UNITED STATES SQUADRONS 138 ENEMY AIRCRAFT DESTROYED AGAINST LOSS OF TWENTY. DURING SUCCESSFUL BOMBING OF EMDEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, December 11. United States headquarters announce that large formations of Flying Fortresses and Liberators, which were escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings, today attacked naval and .other installations in Emden, lhe naval base in north-west Germany. In numerous aerial combats 117 enemy aircraft were destroyed by the heavy bombers and 21 by the fighters. Seventeen United States bombers and three fighters are missing. It was Emden’s 88th raid. The Press Association’s aviation correspondent says that the Luftwaffe’s losses indicate that the Germans put up a great force of fighters. It was probably the severest loss the German air force has suffered in daylight since the Germans introduced their rocket-firing planes. The bombing, results are described by the American headquarters in England as good. The Air Ministry states that Mosquitoes of the R.A.F. without loss attacked objectives in western Germany last night.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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165SIGNAL VICTORY Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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