FELL OUT OF BOMBER AND LIVED
LONDON, October 10. The tail-gunner of a United States Flying Fortress, Staff-Sergeant James Jones, fell out of a Fortress over Britain without the benefit of his parachute and escaped almost uninjured. The Fortress returning in darkness from a late afternoon raid became tem‘porarily lost and struck and ricocheted off a hill. The impact threw Sergeant Jones through the escape door. The crew estimate the height of the plane at between 25 and 100 feet. Jones instinctively pulled the ripcord of the parachute as he, fell out, but the parachute did not have time to open. Jones fell on •soft ground, and was knocked uncon'scious. He received a slightly-sprained leg and minor cuts and bruises. ' It is estimated that he-rolled 100 yards afterhitting the ground, with the parachute winding about his body as he rolled. Several months ago an Englishman, Flight Engineer Brian Taffe, fell about 1500 feet from a Stirling bomber when his parachute failed to open. Wheri found, he was buried three feet deep in soft soil. He suffered a fractured skull, a broken leg and shoulder, fractured ribs, and back injuries. Later he developed pneumonia, but today he is convalescing, and he hopes to be
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 14, 12 October 1943, Page 5
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203FELL OUT OF BOMBER AND LIVED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 14, 12 October 1943, Page 5
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