N.Z. AIRMAN'S COUP
HAVOC AMONG DORNIERS
Eec. 9.30 a.m. LONDON, December 6. Flying Officer R. E. Lelong, of Auckland, a Mosquito pilot of the Fighter Command, in a single-handed attack against a squadron of 13 German Dornier flying-boats moored in a Baltic bay in October shot five of them to pieces and severely damaged two others while the German crews watched helplessly from the shore. . Flying Officer Lelong spotted the Dorniers while he was patrolling, and went in very low and made in all seven or eight attacks, flyjng sometimes through, thick smoke as the Dorniers ■exploded on the water. After attacking another flying-boat in the air on the ■way home, Flying Officer Lelong's plane was hit by flak. He flew the remaining 400 miles to England on one engine.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 137, 7 December 1944, Page 8
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130N.Z. AIRMAN'S COUP Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 137, 7 December 1944, Page 8
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