ELUSIVE NAZI PLANE
ESCAPE INTO CLOUDS
RAKED BY BRITISH
RANGE OF 90 FEET
(Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received Nov. 14, 1.40 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13.
A plane which at first was not identified was sighted off the cast coast. British fighters took off and gunfire was heard as the plane disappeared into the clouds.
Subsequently it was reported that the plane was a German flying boat. Three British fighters patrolling above cloud level sighted the intruder 2000 ft below a few miles out to sea. The British machines dived in pursuit.
The leader followed the German into the clouds and raked him at a range of 90ft, shooting off a piece of the wing tip. The German replied with tracer bullets and escaped into the clouds again, a few hundred feet above the sea.
An Amsterdam message states that a Netherlands gunboat picked up three German airmen after their plane had fallen into the sea. A fourth, who was the chief pilot, was drowned. The survivors were interned.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20094, 14 November 1939, Page 8
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