BRITISH OFFICER.
GERMAN PILOT RESCUED. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Sept. 25. During the heavy fighting over the sea coast yesterday, Lieutenant Jacobs, an officer in the Royal Engineers, saved a German sergeant-pilot from drowning after a Messerschmitt had been shot dotvn in the sea by a direct hit from one of two Spitfires.
The German pilot tried to swim ashore, but the current carried him out. Lieutenant Jacobs, who saw the crash from the Folkestone breakwater, dived in and swain'but to the exhausted German. He turned him on his back- and supported him until a motor boat arrived, when the rescued German was found to be suffering from a broken leg and a wounded right arm.
Spitfires are too good for us," pilot said when ho was • brought •shore. 6
lieutenant/ Jacobs later stated that in time. th ® bounded man only just
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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142BRITISH OFFICER. Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 229, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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