Flights Over N.W. Reich, Heligoland
• Received noon.) LONDON, February 25. The Air Ministry states that the Royal Air Force made reconnaissance flights over Heligoland Bight and North-West Germany yesterday. They repulsed six separate attacks and came home safely after completing their task. One machine was attacked by five Messerschmitts. A Berlin communique reports': “Slight reconnaissances and patrol activity over the German-French frontier and the Heligoland Bight. One French and one British plane was shot down.”
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1940, Page 5
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