CRASH OF BOMBER

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 45, 16 November 1940, Page 7

CRASH OF BOMBER

Engine Trouble Over Hamburg

Dominion Special Service

I LISTINGS, November 15.

Injuries which he was reported to have received while engaged in operations with the R.A.F., are not serious, according to a letter which Flying Officer N. J. Edwards has written to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 11. N. Edwards, Hastings. lie says that, tie is all right—"just my left shoulder smashed up a bit, but they are sticking me together, and I’ll be up aloft before long.” "Boy, was it a crash I” he writes. “We went to Hamburg that night, and over the city one motor gave trouble, so the searchlights got us. and they opened up on us with every gun they had. It was hellish, but they didn’t get a direct hit, and we squirmed out somehow. “However, on the way - baek one motor burst into flames, and the prop fell off,” he continued. “We got the fire out and tried to get home on one engine, but she wouldn’t do it, and we gradually lost height. Then the good motor started :o go, and we flew into the ground in the middle of a thick fog only 10 miles from home. There was a most awful crash. NVe hit two pine trees first, smashed them up. and then spread all over a field. “I was out first, and tried to fix up the others, who. were pretty bad, and then went for help in the dark and the fog. They were all knocked about, but all are getting better.” Flying Officer Edwards, who is the chief pilot in a bomber, has two Napier airmen in his crew, one as a rear gunner, and the other as an observer.