ONE FIGHTS THREE
AUSTRALIAN PLANE GERMANS BEATEN OFF (New.} by Cable.) RUGBY, Oct. 2. A Sunderland Hying boat of the Coastal Command which fought a 20-minutes battle with three Messerschmitt 110’e off Ushant damaged them and drove them off. The flying boat, which belongs to the Royal Australian Air Force, was returning from a long reconnaissance of .German shipping movements off the west coast of France, states an Air Ministry bulletin. The three Messerschmitts were essorting two Dornier “flying pencil” bombers and two of the fighters repeatedly came in on the Sunderland’s beam and one from below. Every attack was beaten off. The Australian gunners saw many bullets strike home before the Messerschmitts broke off the fight. The Sunderland was not damaged.
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Opotiki News, Volume III, Issue 319, 4 October 1940, Page 1
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