London, Sept. 30, OVAL Air Force units yesterday attacked ships of the German Fleet in Heligoland Bight.
Despite formidable anti-aircraft fire, the attacks wer pressed home at a low altitude.
The oficial announcement concludes by saying "some of our aircraft have not yet returned."
The raid in admitted in a German news agency release in Berlin which says six British warplanes made the attack which was "without result" and on their flight back, the British planes were attacked by German chasers. There was a sfiort air battle, the German statement adds and claims five British aeroplanes were shot down, all falling into the sea.
The skill of Royal Air Force pilots has provided British Head~ quarters in France with a remarkable series of photographs, showing in clearest detail some of the most strongly fortified zones lof the Siegfried Line, the Air Ministry announced today, At only 600 feet, they flew for miles along the line, took close-ups of the emplacements and tank traps, noted different types of camouflage, located the network of communication lines.
None of the aircraft wi attacked by gunfire or German fighters, the announcement claims. They flew so low, it is stated, that many gunners must have thought that they were German planes and Germans engaged in camouflaging a sun waved a greeting at one machine. "They might not have been so cheerful," comments the Air Ministry, "if they had recognized the machine as a British bomber.
One group of RAF, planes fying: over the line at 21,000 feet, the an-'Rouncement concludes, was' spotted, fand greeted with ireraft fre. The shooting was very accurate, and several shells burst uncomfortably near.
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