Says Rommel Shot Down By Malta Spitfires
LONDON. July 14. A German underground radio station stales that Rommel was shot down by Allied fighters yesterday while flying to Sicily to assume command there. Reuter's Stockholm correspondent says “Svenska Dagbladet,” giving' this information, says Rommel was travelling in a transport plane under strong fighter escort, accompanied by German and Italian staff officers. A Malta despatch yesterday reported Spitfires had shot down a Junkers 52 transport plane, escorted by more than 30 German and Italian fighters ever the Sicilian coast. Six of the fighter escort were also shot down in flames. Authoritative circles in Berlin deny that Rommel has been killed.
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Northern Advocate, 15 July 1943, Page 5
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