SEVEN BRITISH FIGHTER PLANES LOST
WIDESPREAD OPERATIONS FOUR ENEMY MACHINES SHOT DOWN. [ British Official Wireles?. ] RUGBY, Feb. 6. Reports of yesterday's Royal Air Force operations show that two lighters were lost, with their pilots, making a total of seven lost during the day. Four enemy aircraft were shot down in the course of the widespread offensive operations by the Fighter Command, states the Air Ministry news service. The first victim of the day was a Junkers 87 dive-bomber which was intercepted when attempting to homo shipping off the south-west coast and was shot down by a Spitfire pilot. The raider crashed beside a road in Kent and burst into flames. Later a second raider, a Dornier 215, was caught by a Spitfire patrol and shot down into the Channel. Two other enemy fighters, both of the Messerschmitt 109 type, were encountered during the afternoon over-north-eastern France and shot. down.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 5
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