TRAIN HALTED
AND BARGES SET ON FIRE ATTACKS BY SPITFIRES. NAZI RAID ON BRITISH CONVOY FAILS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) RUGBY June 16. During operations over occupied territory, Spitfires of the Fighter Command attacked a goods train, which was brought to a standstill, says the Air Ministry. The planes also set fire to three loaded barges between Bruges and Ostend. One fighter is missing. An Admiralty communique states: “One enemy aircraft was destroyed and others were driven off in an unsuccessful attack on one of our convoys off the south-west coast at midnight last night. No casualties or damage were sustained by any of our ships.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1942, Page 4
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