STRAFED IN DAYLIGHT
HEAVY RAID OS EWSDEN 138 ENEMY FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN LONDON. December 11. United States headquarters announce that large formations "of Flying Fortresses and Liberators, escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings, attacked naval and other installations at Km den to-day. In numerous aerial combats 138 enemy aircraft were destroyed by the heavy bombers. The Press Association's aviation correspondent says that the Luftwaffe losses indicate that the Germans put up a great force of fighters. It was probably the severest loss the Luftwaffe has suffered in daylight since the Germans introduced rocket-firing planes. Seventeen United States bombers and three of the escorting fighter aircraft are missing. It was Emden's eightyeighth raid.
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Evening Star, Issue 25046, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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111STRAFED IN DAYLIGHT Evening Star, Issue 25046, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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