WESTERN FRONT
GERMAN PLANE BROUGHT DOWN
i (Daventry Broadcast.) \ LONDON, Friday Night" 1 ■ There has been little activity on thty. Western Front today. Tonight's French communique speak* .-; iof a few encounters between contact, j units, and the German communique states that there was feeble artillery fire and some reconnaissance work. ■, - This morning's communique said that, - a German twin-engined plane was. r brought down in French territory yesterday by a British fighter, and that aa -, officer and three men were taken" \ prisoners. Two were wounded in tha'; fight. One, who spoke English, said . that they crossed the French' fron- '• tier after losing their way "over the , North Sea. Although the German plane opened fire first, its engines were-soon.;, out of action. It is believed that another' Germati '. plane was brought down behind thei ; German lines. - '
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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134WESTERN FRONT Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 13
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