The Archive · 1941

3 More Raiders Downed Last Night

Total German Losses for May So Far Already Equal April Figures

London, May 10.

In brilliant sunshine today flying German fighters attempt connaissance flight: over Britain's south-east coast were driven off by fighter patrols after a battle five or six miles up.

Small groups of the enemy flew across the Straits of Dover and tried io pass inland by adopting cloud-hopping tactics: however, swiftly moving patches of clouds driven by a swift north-casterly wind provided poor cover and the Nrzis had to come into the oven where R.A.F. pilots got at them.

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