ONE DID NOT RETURN.
R.A.F. Reconnaissance Flights Over Germany. NAZI MACHINES OVER FRANCE. British Official Wireless. (Received noon.) RUGBY, March 24. The Air Ministry announced: —"During Saturday night R.A.F. aircraft carried out reconnaissance flights over extensive areas of north-west Germany. One of our aircraft failed to return." A German communique, according to an earlier cable, said that in spite of intense fighter and anti-aircraft defence, units of the German Air Force carried ous, numerous reconnaissance flights over France. Some enemy reconnaissance machines entered German territory, and »ne British aeroplane was shot down. The German High Command reports that numerous enemy aeroplanes flew "vcr north-west Germany and the Moselle-Rhine sector on the nijjht of Saturday-Sunday. "Our anti-aircraft shot down a Vickers-Wtllington longdistance 'plane."
Enemy aircraft while flying homeward between 10.45 p.m. and 2.45 a.m., violated Dutch territory in eight cases.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 7
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139ONE DID NOT RETURN. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 71, 25 March 1940, Page 7
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