London, May 2.
Details of Tuesday night's raid the aerodrome of Stavanger were given by British pilots early "this morning. A pilot described how he saw a British plane hit the runway Of the aerodrome. with a bomb, Another plane, he said, scored hits with a salvo of heavy bombs near Intersection of the runway. The frst two British machines then went off towards the sea, heavily attacked by "We ourselves," the pilot continued, "wore about two miles from the coast when two Messersckmitts closed on our' aircraft. My rear-gunner concentrated on the starboard Sghter, firing four bursts of it, after which it turned away, burst into fames and fell into the sea. The other fighter broke off the attack and returned to the coast, Two Direct Wits "Shortly afterwards, another Messerschmitt came up. We had a runing ght for 30 minutes. We were linest skimming the sea and. countered each of his attacks. Although he let off a lot of fire there was mark on our aircraft when we got Back. "My" front-gunner got in a couple of direct its, and after a. Second, there was a small explosion the Messerschmitt's rear-gun position and pieces were seen to fall from the machine, He broke away, but as he was still under control be cannot, be counted to be a. certain Victim." The bomb almer of another: airratt said he saw the outline of a hangar, and they were pretty certain, that at least two bombs went through the roof, exploding inside—Reuter.
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