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MORE NAZI PLANES FIGHTERS GET ONE WARSHIP CLAIMS VICTIM LONDON SIRENS SOUND (Klee. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.30 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 9. Two German aircraft were destroyed to-day. An enemy bomber was shot down into the sea off the east coast by British fighters. An Admiralty communique states that an enemy aircraft of the Heinkel 11 IK type which approached one of the British convoys in the North Sea was promptly shot down into the sea by H.M.S. Pytchley. There were no survivors from the enemy aircraft. The sounding of the air-raid sirens in London this afternoon was followed by a short alert. A Berlin message quotes a German statement that waves of German bombers attacked aerodromes and warehouses at Malta, causing fires. "Small enemy forces bombed residential districts in the west of Germany,” adds the German statement.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20477, 11 February 1941, Page 9
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