FIGHTER SWEEPS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 9

FIGHTER SWEEPS

R.A.F. OVER FRANCE WIDESPREAD ATTACKS FOUR NAZIS DOWNED (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.15 p.m. RUGBY, Aug. 3. Royal Air Force planes were active over the Straits of Dover and the coast of northern France during the evening. The weather was very clear in the straits and anti-aircraft shells bursting over the French coast in the direction of Calais were seen from the British side. An Air Ministry communique states: “Aircraft of the Fighter Command again carried out many offensive operations over the Channel and northern France to-day, Sunday. A large number of enemy objectives were attacked. Patrol vessels, aircraft on the ground, troops, gunposts and an aerodrome were raked with machine-gun and cannon lire from a low level, and four enemy fighters were shot down. One of ours is missing.” An Air Ministry communique states: “Early this afternoon enemy aircraft dropped bombs at a place on the south-east coast. These did some damage and caused a small number of casualties. An enemy bomber was shot down in the Channel by one of our fighters in the afternoon.”