Two Hurricanes Beal Six Huns

Northern Advocate, 26 May 1941, Page 6

Two Hurricanes Beal Six Huns

(Eec. 2 p.m.) RUGBY, May 25. Two Hurricane pilots on patrol over the south-east coast yesterday afternoon ran into six of the new Messerschmitt 109 s, Germany’s latest fighter, and after damaging two of them, sent all six panicking back to France. The Germans came head on at the British patrol, but were out-manoeu-vred and a dog fight began at 16,000 feet and went oh until the fighters were down to 6000 feet. It ended with two of the crack German fighters in such bad shape that when they were last seen they were flying for home and losing height. One was minus his cockpit cover and, in the words of the pilot officer responsible, “as full of bullet holes as possible, from nose to tail.” The other left a trail of thick black smoke streaming behind as he went. Daylight Attack on France Earlier a Free French pilot of the Fighter Command flew low over an enemy camp in occupied France and attacked with guns four huts and a car. Another pilot of the same squadron attacked a trawler acting as escort to a 3000-ton steamer a mile off the French coast.

It was pilots from the same squadron who shot down the Messerschmitt 110 over Calais before breakfast.

39-Yeai-Olds.—The provisional returns of the registration of men born in 1902, which took place on May 17, show that 400,592 men registered under the National Service Armed Forces Act. The next registrations, which will be for men born in 1901, will take place on May 31.