AIRMAN IN SEA SAVES HIS HELMET
"I remembered that it was a good helmet, " explained an R.A.F. oificer to his rescuers who were astounded to find! him swimming- away from them in the sea. A British patrol ship had sent a rowing boat to pick up the oificer, a squadron-leader, who had been compelled to bale out from a Hurricane fighter during a German raid on a convoy. The rescuers wondered why he swam in the opposite direction, md the squadron-leader said he had thrown away his helmet when he was parachuting down to the sea. "I saw It floating some distance away and swam for it," he remarked. Immediately he went ashore, the squadron-leader reported for duty, although he had been in the water some time, but his commander insisted on his taking leave. This _ squadron-leader's squadron went through the entire campaign in France and shot down 70 'planes in the last 10 days of it. He had been awarded the D.F.C.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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163AIRMAN IN SEA SAVES HIS HELMET Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 2
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