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IN WEST GERMANY. \ RUGBY, Feb. 22. .An Air Ministrv communique states: The Bomber Command last night attacked objectives in the Rhineland and elsewhere in western Germany. Mines were laid in en,emv waters. Three of our planes are missing. There is nothing to report, states
an official communique concerning last nieht’s air activity over Britain. Twentv-eight British aircraft were lost during the week ended at dawn on February 22. Over' the Continent, five bombers and three aircraft of the Coastal Command, and two fighters were lost, and in the Mildle East 18 aircraft. In the same neriod, four German bombers were destroyed over or round the British Isles, three German fighters over the Continent, ten enemy aircraft in the Middle East, and five were sunk bv Brit'sh warships and a merchant ship.
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Grey River Argus, 24 February 1942, Page 8
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