FIGHT OVER KENT COAST.—During air battles over Kent and around the coast the pilot of a Messerschmitt 109 baled out by parachute as his machine crashed to earth. The airman suffered injury and received first aid immediately after landing. Mr Winston Churchill saw the machine crash and afterwards inspected the wreckage. Workers are here seen salvaging the plan© after it had almost buried itself in the earth.
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Evening Star, Issue 23686, 20 September 1940, Page 10
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67FIGHT OVER KENT COAST.—During air battles over Kent and around the coast the pilot of a Messerschmitt 109 baled out by parachute as his machine crashed to earth. The airman suffered injury and received first aid immediately after landing. Mr Winston Churchill saw the machine crash and afterwards inspected the wreckage. Workers are here seen salvaging the plan© after it had almost buried itself in the earth. Evening Star, Issue 23686, 20 September 1940, Page 10
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