CHANNEL DOG-FIGHT
MESSERSCHMITTS SUFFER
PLANES DOWN ON TUESDAY
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, November 27.
A Canadian flight lieutenant and an English sergeant pilot flying on their own destroyed two enemy fighters on Tuesday, while another was brought down by anti-aircraft fire. A Heinkel 60 float-plane was also destroyed by fighters off the Kent coast.
The flight lieutenant and sergeant pilot were on patrol near Hastings when they gave chase to four Messerschmitts which split up into two pairs. The flight lieutenant went after one pair and, as he went in to attack, the other two swung round on to his tail. The sergeant pilot at once got on their tails, so that for a few seconds all six were sandwiched.
One of the flight lieutenant's Messerschmitts disappeared. The other dived to sea level, where he shot it down. The sergeant pilot chased one of the others the whole way across the English Channel and sent it crashing into the sea near the French coast.
A Messerschmitt was brought down by anti-aircraft fire and crashed off Folkestone.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 11
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176CHANNEL DOG-FIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 130, 28 November 1940, Page 11
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