SPITFIRE EXPLOIT
GASOMETER IN FRANCE SET ON FIRE. NAZI BATTERIES GIVEN NO TIME TO OPEN FIRE. * (British Official Wireless.) (Received This 'Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, June 12. Skimming the wavetops of the English Channel, under low clouds and in mist, two Spitfire pilots flew up Le Treport Harbour, north-east of Dieppe, this afternoon, set fire to a gasometer and flew out again before the German ground batteries had time to open fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 June 1942, Page 4
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