AUCKLANDER’S FEAT
FIVE NAZI PLANES FLYING-BOATS on fire LONDON, Oct. 5 While flying low in a Mosquito over the Baltic -recently Flying Officer R. E. Le Long, of Aucklandl saw 13 Dornier 24’3,’?*three-engined flyingboats, lying at 'armjjor in a bay. He made six attackkion them and left five blazing furiously, with two others damaged and smoking. Then he set a course for home and found another three-engined flyingboat, a Blohm and Voss 138, flying low over the sea. He attacked with his machine-guns and the enemy aircraft was last seen damaged and smoking. , , One of Flying Officer Le Long s engines was damaged by flak while he was flying home over Germany, but he based his aircraft safely on
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21549, 31 October 1944, Page 4
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119AUCKLANDER’S FEAT Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21549, 31 October 1944, Page 4
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