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GERMAN AIR TACTICS SUCCESSFULLY COUNTERED 54 PLANES DOWN YESTERDAY (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 5, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 4 Official reports up to 10.35 p.m. indicate that 54 enemy aircraft were destroyed in air battles today. The Air Ministry news service described how for an hour during the day an air battle was fought over a hundred miles of the English countryside. After losing seven Messerschmitt fighters in the familiar 8 to 9 o’clock attack over Kent and the Thames Estuary, the German A,ir Force changed its tactics. Shortly before 1 p.m. 200 or more German bombers and fighters came raiding up from the south, crossing the coast all the way from Selsey Hill to North Foreland. They were making for aerodromes and factories. Spitfires and Hurricanes challenged them from West Sussex t o the Thames Estuary and destroyed at least 38 of them.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 8
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