POLISH PILOT'S FEATS
DARING DAYLIGHT RAIDS British Official Wireless. Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, May T
Members of the Polish squad!-'.;-, of the Fighter Command did v - spread damage when, piloting thre - pairs of Spitfires, they swept ov. the Channel and Northern Frar.i during daylight yesterday. Theskimmed fields and hedges at hign speed, picking out their victims, an-'i all returned within a few minun • of each other. Their exploits included the shooting down of a large threeengined troop-carrier in flames, and machine-gunning another troop-car-rier which tvas taxi-ing across an aerodrome, setting a two-funnelled steamer on fire, machine-gunning two other ships and an E-boat, and machine-gunning six Messerschmitts 109 that were apparently filling up at a petrol station on an aerodrome.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 115, 17 May 1941, Page 9
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