SIX IN SIX MINUTES
AUSTRALIANS' BAG OF
PLANES
(Rec. 12.40 p.m.) RUGBY, August 17.
Six of the 19 enemy hghters destroyed in yesterday's two R.A.F. sweeps over Northern France and the Channel were shot down in as many minutes by pilots of an Australian squadron. The only damage to their own aircraft was a single bullet hole.
Two of the enemy machines were dqjrtroyed by the flight lieutenant who was leading the squadron. They brought his score up to three for the day. He had been with the squadron in the morning, and got one then.
A pilot officer and three sergeant pilots, all Australians, destroyed a Messerschmitt apiece. The fight, which began many thousands of feet high, ended at sea level, and the squadron returned home just above the wavetops.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 7
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