The Archive · 1939

Dornier Bomber Shot Down

Paris, Nov. 23. Three of the men in a German plane shot down during a fight took to their parachutes and while one was dead upon landing, the second was only injured while the third was safe. The German craft crashed in the Chálons-sur-Marne district. -A French Headquarters communique reported air battles in the wor. "There was very considerable activity in the air today."

Doggedly pursued by Allied fighters and engaged in battle, a German two-engined plane of the Dornier type wes sent down in flames between the villages of Aissey and Cotebrune this morning. In the charred wreckage of the craft were later found the bodies of its four occupanis.—Havas,

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