The Press: Phony Planes

Since Nazi bombers have flown in waves over the English Channel, preparing for Adolf Hitler's invasion of Britain, the cliffs of Dover are the world's best press box for newsmen and photographers. There, one day last week, a cameraman from Planet News Ltd., top-flight British picture agency, snapped the biggest dogfight of the war to date in a darkening sky.

U. S. newspapers two days later were offered a unique photograph (see cut), flashed by radio across the Atlantic.

Meanwhile, London newsmen grew suspicious. There a similar photo, slightly different, ran as an exclusive picture in the Daily Sketch. Said Sketch's caption: "Taken...

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