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British Official Wireless.
I FLAMING WRECK FALLS
Rec. 6.30 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 14. The eircumstances in which a German bomber burst into flames and crasbed during a night raid are described in an Air Ministry bulletin. A British fighter was over London by moonlight when the' pilot saw searchlights concentrating on a point several miles to the north. A Heinkel 111 was held in their beams. For 20 minutes the fighter pilot chased the enemy. Though some searchlights had lost the enemy, four still held him. When the fighter opened fire the Heinkel dropped its bombs to lighten its load, At the same time bullets from the Heinkel's rear guns ihit the flghter's windscreen and wing, but the flghter's bullets had struck home. The Heinkel dropped flaming out of the sky. Following it down, the fighter pilot saw the explosion when it crashed. _ (
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1940, Page 7
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