DARING EXPLOIT
LANDING IN OCCUPIED FRANCE BRITISH PARACHUTE TROOPS ESCAPE AFTER DOING MUCH DAMAGE (Rec., 1.25 p.m.) London, June 18. Landing 1 in occupied France during an intense R.A.F. night raid, British parachutists destroyed 30 grounded planes and the control tower at a German aerodrome. They then escaped in torpedo-boats with forty Germans as prisoners. This daring exploit is reported in an overseas news agency message from Zurich. The parachutists landed at Bercksurmer near Calais and contacted British agents and French sympathisers. Guards at the aerodrome were overwhelmed by parachutists who captured German pilots, destroyed planes and the control tower with hand grenades, and then rushed to the coast with their prisoners, to waiting torpedoboats.—U.P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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