GREAT AIR BATTLE
SPANISH COMBATANTS CLAIM BY REPUBLICANS HEAVY NATIONALIST REVERSE (Received August 15, 0.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 14 Eighteen Nationalist aeroplanes are rpported to have been shot down in the Gandesa sector in one of the largest air battles of the Spanish war, says the Barcelona correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. The battle lasted two hours. As far as is known the Republicans lost only one aeroplane.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23117, 16 August 1938, Page 9
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