POLISH FIGHTER PILOTS
ENEMY HARRIED IN DAY RAID SWEEP OVER CHANNEL AND FRANCE TBritish Official Wireless] (Rec., 1.40 p.m.) Rugby, May 16. Members of a Polish squadron of the Fighter Command did widespread damage when piloting three pairs of Spitfires. They swept over the Channel and Northern France in daylight yesterday. They skimmed fields and hedges at high speed, picking out victims, and all returned within a few minutes of each other. Their exploits included the shooting down of a large three-engined troopcarrier in flames, the machine-gunning of another troop-carrier which was 1 xiing across an aerodrome, setting a two-funnelled steamer on fire, the machine-gunning of two other ships and an E-boat and the machine-gunning of six Messerschmitts 109 which were apparently filling up at a petrol station on an aerodrome.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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