GERMAN SHIPS SUNK
(8.0.W.) RUGBY, November 27. The following Air Ministry communique was issued: “A formation of Coastal Command Beauforts, with fighter escort, attacked an enemy supply ship off The Hague this morning. The ship was bombed from low level, hit and left sinking. Our fighters, including some carrying bombs, attacked an enemy convoy near the coast of Normandy this afternoon and sank a supply ship and two antiaircraft ships. Two enemy fighters were encountered on the way home and were shot down into the Channel. “Enemy aircraft on the ground at Bieck Aerodrome and shipping at Boulogne were also attacked by our fighters during the day. Three of our fighters are missing.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24605, 29 November 1941, Page 7
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