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TELLS OF FIGHTBETWEEN PLANES(Caftlfaatd Nil Putt I**#**D44alivebyofoilblindre*cr.tahairn*.*kihtmich i gun hlUfb *11 over the «Uff whut 1 «u trending.DM piece of }ifpd ahrapntl crrahadtn^ At itpbalt • bare 10 feet a way 0»\# IfcpifiChilliti fighter ran tfttu a frfnwndmii ants - aircraft bur raft i*. 'during a daring diva on the balloon*. ^! Hi was bounced about in At *ky but iwvpi m through and than bar*out to aaa.*A ebaoky blighter rommentad mm RAK officer watchmg *he fight He i a daunted Cardan* but ha daaerved to get away with it It waa on a lt;d the moat daHng dive* t*ve rv#r naan At a height of at but 20,000 feet they earn# acre** m wav* after wtvt An Ajwh latrd Ft*** cim****md*n! gteed on tha cliff* of tha town h*taking to tha broken rhythm of thaw motor* for nearly half an Hour, Shortly afterward tttploalofti w*r« heard in tha du»t*nee Then 1* Nagi bomber* war# seen speeding away ir tha direction of frmwA mil# off ahora a Merwerarhrmtl fighter broke from tha protectingforce around tha Nnbiff and craahed into tha *e*. A Hritiah Spitfire fob lowed it down, circled about th« widening oil patch it left, and thar flew away. \in a dogfight two machine* wtn aeen to diva out of a Haaa, one or the tail of tha other, but both die-appeared before o baa rear* could «e tha reaulta of the encounterrho
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Monroe News Star

Monroe, Louisiana, US

Fri, Aug 16, 1940

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