A useful achievement by the Home Command of the Royal Air Force yes~ terday evening was the destruction of hume German troop-carrying aircraft fon the coast of Holland. Seven of these were destroyed by long-range Aghters and two by bombers.
The leader of six fighters described how they dived from 5,000 feet to 50 feet and riddled the troop-carriers with "18,000 rounds of machine-gun When the bombers, with escorting fighters, approached 'a point where the troop-carriers had been reported three Messerschmitt 110 fighters were sighted. - Below them, on the beach eight miles north of The Hague, they saw nine Junkers $2. troop-carrying, After the bombers had hit and sot on fire two machines, the fighters formed a line astern for a ground attack. One after another they dived Vertically from 5,000 fect, fattening, out over the beach.
"After the bombers had Gnished, we noticed that two of the enemy aircraft were on fire. Down we went our front guns blazing at the other enemy aircraft. 'The Germans replied with machine-gun fire from the Ground. 'The result of our attacks was that out of the seven remaining aircraft we destroyed four more, and the other' three were also. riddled vith our bullets. After' we had finished strafing them, there was practically no response from the German machine-gunners, One of our fighters made a forced landing on the sands. We did not leave it until we were satisfied that the pilot and the other members of the crew were uninjured."—British OfMicial Wireless.
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