BLENHEIM BOMBER
TWO ENEMY PLANES BEATEN
(British Official Wireless.) (Received December 28, 1.10 p.m.)
RUGBY, December 27.
A story made public by the Air Ministry news service describes how a running fight just above the sea today between a Blenheim bomber of the Coastal Command and two Messerschmitt 109's ended with one of the German aircraft banking into the sea off- the French coast and breaking up and the other being severely damaged and making for home.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 155, 28 December 1940, Page 8
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