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BRITISH PARACHUTISTS ’ LAND IN FRANCE I — j DAMAGE AT NAZI > AERODROME I THIRTY PLANES & TOWER DESTROYED. ESCAPE WITH FORTY GERMANS AS PRISONERS. i ßy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. Landing in occupied France during an intense R.A.F. night raid, British parachutists destroyed thirty grounded planes and a control tower at a German aerodrome, then escaped in torpedo-boats, with forty Germans as prisoners. This daring exploit is reported .in an overseas news agency message from Zurich. The parachutists landed at Bercksurmer, near Calais, and made contact with British agents and French sympathisers. The guards at the aerodrome were overwhelmed by the parachutists, who captured German pilots, destroyed the planes and control tower with hand grenades and then rushed to the coast with their prisoners, to the waiting torpedo-boats.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1941, Page 6
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