HURRICANES WIN
GERMAN PATROL ROUTED
(Rec. 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, May 25.
Two Hurricane pilots on patrol over the south-east coast yesterday afternoon ran into six of the new Messerschmitt 109's—Germany's latest fighter —and after damaging two of them sent all six panicking back to France.
The Germans came head-on at the British patrol, but were outmanoeuvred and a dog-fight began at 16,000 feet, and went on until the fighters were down to 6000 feet. It ended with two of the crack German fighters in such bad shape that when last seen they were flying for home losing height.
One was minus its cockpit cover, and in the words of the pilot officer responsible "full of bullet holes from nose to tail." The other left a trail of thick black smoke streaming behind as it went.
Earlier a Free French pilot of the Fighter Command flew down lov over a camp which the enemy occupied in France. He attacked with his guns four huts and a car. Another pilot of the same squadron attacked a trawler acting as escort to a 3000-ton steamer a mile off the French coast.
It was pilots from the same squadron who shot down the Messerschmitt 110 over Calais before breakfast — 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 122, 26 May 1941, Page 8
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