GERMAN DRIVEN OFF.
RAKED AT 90-FOOT RANGE. PIECE OF WING-TIP SHOT OFF. (United Press Association —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 13. An unidentified ’plane was sighted off the cast coast. British fighters took off and gun-fire was heard as the ’plane disappeared in the clouds. The unidentified ’plane oyer the East Coast was a German flying-boat. Three British fighters patrolling above the cloud level sighted, the intruder 2000 feet below, a few miles to sea. They dived in'pursuit. The leader followed the German into the clouds and raked him at a range of 90 feet, shooting off a piece of the wing-tip.
The German replied with tracer bullets and escaped in the clouds a few hundred feet above the sea.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 29, 14 November 1939, Page 5
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