AN AIR FORCE RECORD
NAZIS OUT OF ACTION NEARLY ONE HUNDRED VICTIMS IN ONE DAY’S WORK (United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 2. The Air Ministry announcement states: So far to-day the Royal Air Force has destroyed 35 enemy planes and probably a further six, over the Dunkirk area. Eight of our fighters are missing.” An earlier Air Ministry announcement states: Between dawn and 7 p.m. yesterday the Royal Air Force destroyed or senously damaged 78 German ’planes over Dunkirk. This is a Royal Air Force record. One British squadron shot down eight planes during the day. Sixteen of our ’planes have not returned. The Paris radio said that the Royal Air Force had broke* all records in the last 24 hours by bringing down nearly 100 ’planes. The French Air Force continued its attacks, dropping very heavy bombs around Nieuport and Ostend and bombing . ene ’T' communications, railway lines, and troop concentration in the Dunkirk sector.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 201, 3 June 1940, Page 5
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