ORDEAL FOR R.A.F. PILOT
LONDON, September 27. An R.A.F. pilot had it near shave recently when his Typhoon sank in the English Channel. He had just cleared the English coast, and it was too late to bail out. The Typhoon hit the sea at lit) miles an hour nnd went down like a stone. The impact knocked the pilot unconscious, and when he came. to. he tound himself trapped in the cockpit in 18 feet of water. He loosened his straps, and his “Mao West.” though not inflated, took him to the surface. He bobbed up among a fishing fleet and was quickly hauled aboard ,
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 5, 1 October 1943, Page 5
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105ORDEAL FOR R.A.F. PILOT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 5, 1 October 1943, Page 5
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