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GERMAN AIR FORCE
BOMBER'S ATTACK ON ARMY LORRIES
VERY LOW ALTITUDE
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received January 27, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, January 26.
Dispatches from correspondents with the British Air Force in France describe an incident today which indicates greater recklessness on the part of the German Air Force.
For the first time since the war began, German aircraft launched a ground attack in France. A Heinkel' bomber came down - and machinegunned a convoy of French lorries fr6m about 2000 feet. There were no casualties, and none of the lorries was hit. The Heinkel was sighted by three' Hurricanes which drove it off.
This is reported to be the first occasion on which a German bomber of this type has shown itself at such a low altitude. Air battles with German bombers hitherto have been fought mostly at between.2s,ooo and 30,000 feet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 13
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