The Archive · 1941

Greeted by People

The operations of these pairs of aircraft are. described by the Air Ministry news service, Pilots of two ff the aircraft which flew over Bole ium report that they came as low as 20 feot and everywhere they were waved at by the people. Their re-Ports show that life In ihe occupied areas seemed to be normal.

Two other Hurricanes swept over the Dunkirk area. and" machine-hunned enemy afveraft dispersed Around un aerodrome, Bullets were seen to strike several of the alreratt onthe ground.

Yeh another pair from the same squadron machine-gunned the marshalling yards of an enemy occupied town in France from 200 fect. brings ing two trains to a standstill "A. spitiice pilot on offensive parrot over the channel also visited enemy Territory, "He had been operating over a German convoy and, came down over occupied France to 400 feet to find his whereabouts, He w immediately greeted by a hail of tracer bullets.

Then he saw some lorries which he Yecognized as German, He came down behind the tories. which he identified as army vehicles, and machine-gunned them. forcing one to trash into a ditch, -¥fe then turned came Aived on and machine-gunned before yeloining his companion and return-Ing to" the baso—British Omciat Wireless,

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