The Archive · 1940

the Channel

"About 180. planes were believed to After sharp exchanges of machine that enemy planes had crossed the have been engaged. About 30 Ger-gun fire, the Germans broke of the coast. Britisti fighters and pursuit man bombers, escorted by fighters, jagament and fled across the Chan-planes roared aloft to meet the) commenced it, As the bombers flew hel. after an unidentified plane had Invaders and attempt to drive them over they released several salvoes of fallen in flames.

Off before they could penetrate into, bombs. which however fell wide of the interior—United Press,

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