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TALES TOLD BY NAZIS NORTH SEA AIR FIGHT MESSERSCHMIDT SWARM REDUCTION TO FOUR (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.J Reed. 1.40 p.m. RUGBY. Jan. 4. Discrepancy is. remarked in London between the first German account of Tuesday’s action over the North Sea m which two British bombers were lost and the later German versions of the engagement. The original German story stated: ■‘Three British planes were attacked by a swarm of Messerschmidts and alter a short cngagemenl all were shot down." In a later German statement, however, it was claimed: “On. the German side only four planes .took part —not 12 as the British .propaganda asserts in order to construe numerical superiority." Thus between the issue of the first and subsequent accounts, the “swarm” had become only four machines
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20137, 5 January 1940, Page 8
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