FIGHTERS HAVE GOOD DAY
Offensive Across Channel British Official Wireless RUGBY, Nov. 18. A 500 ton ship was sunk in the Channel, a factory in Northern France was severely damaged and a Messerschmitt 109 was destroyed by fighters during to-day’s Royal Air Force offensive operations states the Air Ministry. The ship was found by Spitfires near the French coast. All the aircraft in formation immediately dived down and opened fire from funnel height one after another. Clouds of steam and smoke at once enveloped the ship and as the fighters turned away it was seen to be submerged except for the funneL A Messerschmitt was shot down by a squadron patrolling high over the Channel. Other German fighters were severely damaged and were unlikely to reach their base but are claimed as only probably destroyed. Meanwhile Beaufighters each carrying four cannon and six machine-guns attacked a German patrol vessel in daylight at sea level near Ijmuiden. The ship was seriously damaged and a large cloud of smoke rising from it was visible 10 miles away.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CL, Issue 22125, 20 November 1941, Page 5
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