Word: saulniers
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Nazi scouts were accompanied by Messerschmitt fighters.* Nevertheless, they admitted that, in one day, seven observers were lost. Same time the Nazis put the score for the whole war at 52 warplanes lost by Great Britain to 20 by Germany and boasted that Messerschmitts had overcome the French Morane-Saulnier fighters. Britain claimed that 125 Nazi warplanes of all types had been shot down, and had reason to believe that British Supermarine Spitfires and Hawker Hurricanes (capable of 335 m. p. h. and firing eight machine guns from their wings' leading edge) were up to anything Germany could trot...