GREAT AIR VICTORY
BATTLE OVER FRANCE
Enemy Fighters Badly
Mauled
Brilliant Allied Operation
London, Oct. 11
It is now learned that in the great air battle over France, when 115 United States Liberator bombers and Plying Fortresses carried out their big daylight raid on Lille, that no fewer than 105 German fighters were either shot down or damaged. The bombers were escorted by 500 British lighters, and the attack was the biggest combined offensive yet carried out.
Only four of the bombers tailed to get home and these constitute the total losses suffered by the Allied force.
Forty-eight German lighters were shot, down for certain, 15S were probably destroyed and 19 were damaged. The German lighters which tried to shatter the attack were
Focke-Wnlfe tilths, tho lighter in which (leering has pinned his faith. The raid is described as a brilliant victory for the Allied air command. The number of enemy lighters shot down is the greatest in any single combat.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 13769, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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