While' on reconnaissance off Ostend a Spitfire pilot scored a direct hit on the magazine of one of three German anti-aircraft ships from a range of only 200 yards. These ships are large trawlers and carry powerful A.A. batteries in bow and stern — formidable opposition for a fighter aircraft.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 7
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49While' on reconnaissance off Ostend a Spitfire pilot scored a direct hit on the magazine of one of three German anti-aircraft ships from a range of only 200 yards. These ships are large trawlers and carry powerful A.A. batteries in bow and stern—formidable opposition for a fighter aircraft. Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 134, 3 December 1941, Page 7
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