SHIPS SHOW STING
BRITISH DEFENCES RAIDERS SHOT DOWN (British Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Aug. 11. Two recent successes by British merchant ships in bringing down attacking enemy aircraft were revealed to-day. “The aircraft was in sight only three or four seconds before it was attacked,’’ said an officer of the first ship. “Bombs were dropped on the bridge, which was demolished and caught fire. As the aircraft flew off we opened fire with defensive armament and hit it with the first shot. It crashed in the sea. The last I saw wing tip sticking above the water.” The captain of the second ship said: '•‘When the aircraft was just on us, I opened fire with a Lewis gun. We fired about 50 shots. I could hear them pinging on the sides of the machine. Soon the aeroplane caught fire, and I heard the next day that a German aircraft had been seen in the water.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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