SHARED SAME BOAT.
After Shooting Each Other Down In Air Battle. BRITISH AND NAZI FLYERS. British Official Wireless. (Reed, noon.) RUGBY, Sept. 20. A Hurricane squadron pilot-officer and a German sub-lieutenant who shot each other down off the Thames Estuary shared the same rescue boat. During an attack on 50 enemy aircraft the pilot-officer shot down two Messerschmitt 11J fighter-bombers. One of them hit and wet fire to his own machine. "I baled out. falling into the sea three or four miles from Brightlingsea. 1 noticed two other parachutes coming down; one fell close by. A German sub-lieuteuant was using it.'' Another Hurricane pilot, when shot down, made his way to a nearby aerodrome, and was told that the pilot of a Messerschmitt he had attacked had also baled out and landed near the same aerodrome.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 9
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136SHARED SAME BOAT. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 9
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