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RESCUED TOGETHER

British Official Wireless.

SHOT EACH OTHER DOWN

Rugby, Sept. 20. A Hurricane squadron pilot-officer and a German sub-lieutenant who shot each 1 other down ofl the Thames Estuary shared the same rescue boat. During an attack on 50 enemy aircraft the pilotofficer shot down two Messerschmitt 110 fighter-bombers. One of them hit and set fire to his own machine. "I baled out, falling into the sea three or four miles from Brightling-on-Sea." he said. "I noticed two other parachutes coming down. One fell close by. A German sub-lieutenant was using it." Another Hurricane pilot when shot down made his way to a nearby aerodrome and was told that the pilot of the Messerschmitt he had .attacked had also baled out and landed neax the same aerodrome.

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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 7

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128

RESCUED TOGETHER Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 7

RESCUED TOGETHER Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 7

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