British Raiders Shoot Down Messerschmidt and Return Safely; Coast Patrol Sinks Big U-Boat London, Dee, 4 ships successfully, on Heligoland, One of the er have suffered a direct hit.
The cruiser were ing close to flotilla of ix or seven destroyers, the leader of the attacking planes afterwards reported. When he ordered an jack, heavy anti-aircraft fire was opened up and one of the British aire! ft fell out of formation.
Afterwards the plane regained height and returned home with the others.
There were no casualties among the R.A.F. personnel.
'A number of photographs were obtained during the bombing.
'A strong formation of R.A.F. bombers attacked the German warships at Heligoland, obtaining direct hits with heavy bombs, the Air Mi try announced last night.
All the British machines returned safely while one Messerschmidt, the only German encountered, was shot down.
The announcement further adds that a coastal reconnaissance plane. in a surprise attack, destroyed a German submarine yesterday.
Describing how the submarine was sunk, the announcement says the pilot of the plane was about 150 miles from Tand when "he sighted a minute object on the horizon, about eigh miles away. With binoculars he was, able to salisty himself that it, was 2 German submarine, apparently of the ocean-going type.
So that he might approach unobserved, the pilot climbed into 9 cloudbanic, and, thus hidden, the plane approached its quarry:
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