Friday, April 30, 2010

Current Events April 30, 1942: AIR FIGHT OVER FRANCE:


The Centralia Chronicle
Centralia, Washington, Thursday, April 30, 1942 

Burma's Defense Imperiled
Lashio's Fall
To Jap Forces
Acknowledged
Gateway to China Captured
From Allies — British and
Chinese Lost Contact Amid
Danger of Entrapment

Gigantic Air
Fight Staged
Over France
Battle Between British and
German Planes Follows
Raiding of Paris War Foundries
by RAF Bombers
By Associated Press
British and German warplanes
clashed in a gigantic air
battle 25,000 feet over the
German-occupied French "invasion
coast" today following
overnight assaults in which
RAF bombers violently attacked
German war foundries in
Paris.

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