NORWEGIAN FIGHTERS
LED BY WELLINGTON AIRMAN London, Feb. 16. Fighters escorting the Liberators home had a running fight with FockeWulf 190’s from the vicinity of Dunkirk to within sight of England. Wing-Commander P. G. Jameson, double D.F.C. (Wellington), led a Norwegian fighter wing which destroyed seven Focke-Wulfs and damaged two others. Wing-Commander Jameson shot down two.
"Several Huns we destroyed went down in flames and others dived into the sea," he said. "Altogether the wine saw 40 to 50 Huns, either attacking the Liberators or flying home.”
Wing-Commander Jameson is a survivor of the aircraft-carrier Glorious. He was picked up by a Norwegian tramn steamer after three days without food or water on a Carley float. He has now destroyed at least nine aircraft, including two German flyingboats oft Norway.
R.A.F. fighters over Northern France last night destroyed an enemy bomber.
There were no reports of enemy activity over Britain last night.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 40, 18 February 1943, Page 5
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