SIX DAYS ADRIFT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20876, 31 August 1942, Page 2

SIX DAYS ADRIFT

R.A.F. BOMBER CREW BAY OF BISCAY ORDEAL SUCCESSFUL RESCUE (By Teleftrnph—Press Ansn. —Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) (9 a.m.) RUGBY. Aug. 30. After six days in a : dinghy in the Bay of Biscay, the crew of a Wellington bomber, which crashed into the sea there, has been rescued. The day after they came down they were spotted by Other British’ planes which dropped supplies arid another dinghy which drifted away. An Australian Sunderland flying boat set out to pick them up, but was wrecked in a heavy sea, only one of the crewmanaging to reach the spare dinghj which had bren dropped by other British planes On succeeding days the airmen saw many planes, both British and German. .On the fifth day, Beau fighter? found the dinghies and told the Wellington crew that the Sunderland flying-boat survivor was about half a mile away and the Wellington crew paddled over to him. In a- little while naval launches came in sight and the airmen were soon on board one of them. Just then a German launch was seer, coming up and immediately two Focke-Wul'f fighter? attacked their own launch. The Eeaufighters. however, kept off the attackers from the-British launches.