LUFTWAFFE FORCED OUT
AIR BATTLES OVER NIJMEGEN LONDON, Sept. 29 Forced to take the air again today jin a desperate effort to stem pulverising attacks by Allied ground and air forces, the Luftwaffe lost 22 fighters, with two probably lost. Eight others were damaged on the ground, says the lUchange Telegraph correspondent with the British Second Army. Royal Air Force Tempests played a big part in these air battles, which were fought out over the Nijmegen area, where German planes appeared in large numbers. WingCommander Johnnie Johnson’s wing ; bagged six of the day’s score. | Allied planes shot up barges northwest of Nijmegen and smashed five troop-laden ferries on the Pannerdensch river (upper reaches of the Neder Rhine). There are no further reports of the Germans using jet-propelled i planes but, significantly, old-type Stuka dive-bombers are being used against the Nijmegen bridge. A British United Press correspondent at a Ninth Air Force base reports that a 20-year-old American Thunderbolt pilot who has not previously shot down an enemy plane • destroyed six Messerschmitts in a 15-minutes melee in the Arnhem area.
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Waikato Times, Volume 195, Issue 22468, 2 October 1944, Page 7
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