LUFTWAFFE IN FORCE
FEROCIOUS, SUICIDAL ATTACKS (Rec. 12.20 p.m.) LONDON, May 8. • The Luftwaffe in force challenged the United States bombers raiding Berlin and Brunswick to-day. The British United Press correspondent at United States Bomiber Base in Britain said some of the Brunswick raiders reported that over 100 Messerschmitts and Fooke-Wulfs rose through the solid cloud to engage the raiders over the target area. the crews of the Berlin raid said the air battles were some of the most ferocious in which they had been engaged. Some German fighters made suicidal attempts to ram the bombers, and at least one succeeded. The top-turret gunner of one American bomber said he shot down three Focke-Wulfs. Captain R. S. Johnson, a llmnderbolt pilot, Who is officially credited with the destruction of 25 planes, claimed two more to-day. A United States communique reporting many air battles over Berlin and Brunswick, says: Our fighter pilots claim 59 German fighters destroyed and our 'bomber crews claim the destruction of 60 enemy planes.
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Evening Star, Issue 25170, 9 May 1944, Page 5
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