ENEMY MINESWEEPERS
ATTACKED IN CHANNEL THREE VESSELS DAMAGED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 24. The Air Ministry announces that during this afternoon a formation of our bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked enemy minesweepers in the English Channel Hits w'ere made on two vessels and another was damaged by a bomb whcih burst close to it. During this operation an attack was made by enemy fighters, in which one of our bombers was shot down and one of the enemy destroyed.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 7
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