A "BAG" OF TEN
BEST FOR THE DAY
(British Official Wireless.) (Received August 29, 2.40 p.m.) RUGBY, August 28. When over a hundred enemy fighters approached the south-east coast of Britain at about 5 o'clock this afternoon R.A.P. Fighter Command pilots caught their biggest "bag" of the day. Ten Messerschmitts were shot down> Several more, in addition, are believed to have been destroyed, although their Joss could not be proved. A Hurricane squadron which in nine days' fighting in France destroyed 59 of the enemy did the greatest damage. They saw four Messerschmitts crash or fall in flames, and seriously damaged three others. ; It is stated that Mr. Churchill, during a visit to Dover this afternoon, watched one of the fiercest air battles of the war.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 12
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126A "BAG" OF TEN Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 12
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