BELGIAN SPITFIRE PILOTS
OPERATING FROM NATIVE SOIL (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 5. Members of a Belgian Spitfire squadron who recently began to operate from their native soil for the first time in four years celebrated their return by bombing and strafing German troops and material in Zevenbergen, in Holland.
A New Zealand squadron and an English squadron went back to Klundert, north of Breda, where German troops and transports were reforming for a counter-attack on First Canadian Army troops. The pilots saw the Germans lying on their faces in slit trenches, hoping to escape the strafing. They poured their 22 m.m. cannon fire into the slit trenches, killing many of the enemy.
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Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 5
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