The communique relates how a Sergeant Pilot teekled eight Messer schmidt fighters singlehanded, damaging one. The Air Ministry recalls that the same pilot brought down two Messerachmitis yesterday.
Another pilot shot off the port wing' of a Messerschmitt. with one burst anda third Toft his victim a mass of burning wreckage on the ground, These incidents, states the Communique. occurred "during" dog: fights between RAF. cand German fighters. in which he German fighters were in formations of from eight fo" twelve strong.
Leaders of many squadrons which took part in sweeps over France Thursday afternoon reported on their return that it had been dificult 10 bring the enemy to action, says the [Aic Ministry News: Sceviet, "Actions {ook pee, mostly onthe return journey.
One squadron, met a dozen Messerschmitts head-on, dived through them and found ftseit mixed up with more than 30 machines, In the ight the squadron only claimed that one German plane was definitely destroy= fed but that another ye planes were So damaged that their return "was
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