BIGGEST YET
NORTH SEA FIGHT
ENEMY SURPRISED
NAZI PLANES FALL IN FLAMES
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 16, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, December 15. Further particulars of the air battle over the North Sea are now i available. The engagement Was Lhe ! biggest that has so far taken place, i When the enemy warships were i located, consisting of one battleship, ia cruiser, a submarine, and small vessels, the enemy seemed to be taken by surprise. The battle was described by the I pilot leading the British aircraft as "a running fight among the German islands." From these the enemy sent up wave after wave of Messerschmitt fighters. Four of these were seen by the pilot to crash in flames into the sea, where they burned for some time, looking, he said, like beacons and illuminating ! the sky and sea.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1939, Page 14
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139BIGGEST YET Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 145, 16 December 1939, Page 14
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