N.Z. PILOT’S SKILL
(Received May 14, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 13.
Limping home on three engines after a 12 minutes’ running fight against a Messerschmitt 110, the crew of a Lancaster K. for King, saw the lights of an English airfield and. then ran out of fuel The skill of the pilot,. Flight Sergeant A. Gibson, Wellington, hbweve:’, was equal to the occasion,- and the bomber, with all four engines dead, came .in as, smoothly as ji glider.
The Lancaster was attacked after bombing Mailly. The enemy’s fire damaged the Lancaster’s control services, petrol supply system, starboard main plane, coolant tanks, magneto, and engine structure, and put out of action the mid-upper turret. Gibson put the plane in a dive and the Nazi then reattacked, but the Lancaster’s fire hit him and he burst into flames, dived, and exploded on the ground.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 194, 15 May 1944, Page 6
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142N.Z. PILOT’S SKILL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 194, 15 May 1944, Page 6
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