KILLED IN COMBAT
GERMAN AIR ACE (BritiHh Official Wireless.) (9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 12. The German High Command announced that Major Pelanz was shot down and killed in combat with Royal Air Force fighters over France on July 31. He had the previous day scored his fifty-first success. . The British Air Ministry news service recalls that on July 31 Spitfires escorted Bostons to bomb a German fighter, base at Abbeville. Hectic dogfights occurred between 100 Royal Air Force and German fighters over the Somme . area. Eleven German planes were destroyed for the loss of eight British machines, Major Pelanz was killed in one of these fights.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20861, 13 August 1942, Page 3
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