Spitfire fighter on patrol east of Suffolk coast, had a dual
with a Luftwaffe
Dornier
Do 17 and drove it out to see in a damaged condition.
Luftwaffe planes driven off from Shetlands and Orkneys. No
bombs dropped.
Further air successes in France during the weekend were reported.
In one encounter the British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter
patrol attacked nine
Messerschmitts
Bf 109, one of which was shot down. In another, two Hurricane
machines attacked a
Dornier
Do 17 at a height of 19,000 feet and drove it back disabled
over the frontier.
Belgian fishing trawler fired on a German aeroplane.
It was reported from Tallinn that immediate evacuation of
Baltiski, leased by Estonia to Russia as a naval base, has
been demanded, nearly one month before arranged date
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April
Articles:
The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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