THRILLING AIR FIGHTS
SPITFIRES OVER ADRIATIC
Rec. 1240 p.m, LONDON, Jan. 20. R,ArF, Sptfires have been engaged in 'gome of the most thrilling air fights of the war against German recpn* naissance planes pver the Adriatic, sometimes as high as seven miles, says the Algiers correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain. A New Zealander, Squadron Leader R. W. Leven, and a Londoner, Flight Sergean E. A. Rushmere, recently chased one German plane for 100 miles and finally shot it down from a height of 37,000 feet. The Germans have been forced to reduce the size- of their supply convoys for the islands in the Aegean and lonian Seas because the Allied naval and air forces are constantly battering them, says an R.A.F. statement. - According to Reuters Cairo correspondent, the Allies by last September had sunk 165 ships totalling 53,580 tons.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 17, 21 January 1944, Page 5
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