Texan Downs Two Nazis As R.A.F. Attacks Grow
London, Aug. 28 (Thursday) (BUP). - Royal Air Force bombers
battered German defenses and other targets across the Channel last night
and were believed to have struck at enemy shipping in the Strait of Dover.
William Robert Dunn - of Texas went hunting German planes yesterday, found
them plentiful over France and shot down two. He then took his fighter
plane back to its base before repairing to a hospital for treatment of
a foot wound.
Dunn, who hailed from Houston, Texas, when he joined the American Eagle
Squadron of the Royal Air Force, took part in two sweeps of Northern France,
and with his bag of two enemy planes boosted his total to four.
Announcing Dunn's feat, the Air Ministry said his wound was slight. He
was in the second sortie across the coast in early morning offensives
by "many squadrons" of Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes.
Because of ‘trouble’ with his oxygen equipment, Dunn was forced
to fly lower than the rest of his squadron on the way back from France.
He was attacked by three Messerschmitts. The first German overshot and
Dunn gave him a burst, causing him to bail out. The second attacked, but
burst into flames and crashed. The third hit Dunn's fuselage and radio-telephone
and a piece of cannon shell entered his foot.
Even before he became a member of the Royal Air Force, Dunn shot down
two German planes, the Air Ministry said. He was a member of a Canadian
infantry regiment stationed in South England when, with a Lewis gun, he
downed two dive bombers attacking the camp.
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