GERMANS PICKED UP
FIVE IN NORTH SEA RAIDERS OF CONVOY (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 1.45 p.m. RUGBY, Oct. 22. The Air Ministry has announced that since the attack on the convoy in the North Sea yesterday in which four enemy raiders were brought down five German airman have been picked up and landed at Grimsby by trawlers.
Two were brought ashore by one trawler. Both were badly injured. Three others were picked up by another trawler from a rubber boat early this morning, one of them being injured. They had been afloat since yesterday afternoon when their aircraft sank.
All reports have been received from the British aircraft which took part in the engagement and there is nothing to add to the figures of enemy losses already given.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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128GERMANS PICKED UP Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20076, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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