OVER 50 DESTROYED.
TOLL ON NAZI MACHINES.
WEDNESDAY’S BATTLES.
(British Official Wireless.) Received September 5, 2.5 p.m. RUGB 2, Sept. 4
Official reports up to 10.35 p.m. indicate that 54 enemy aircraft were destroyed in the air battles on AAednesdav.
The Air Ministry’s News Service described oil Wednesday night how lor an hour during the da.y an air battle was fought over a hundred miles of English countryside. After losing seven Messerschmitt fighters in the familiar 8 to 9 o’clock attack over Kent and the Thames Estuary, the German air force changed their tactics. Shortly before 1 p.m. 200 or more German bombers and fighters came raiding up from the south, crossing the coast all the way from Selsey Bill to the North Foreland. They- were making for aerodromes and factories. Spitfires and Hurricanes, challenging them from West Sussex to ttie Thames Estuary, destroyed at least 38.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 238, 5 September 1940, Page 8
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