NAZI PILOT RESCUED
British Official Wireless.
ENGINEER SWIMS OUT
Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 24. During heavy fighting over the sea coast yesterday Lieutenant Jacobs, an officer of Ihe Royal Engineers, saved a German pilnt-sergennt from drowning after a Messerschmitt had been shot down in the sea by a direct hit from one of two Spitfires pursuing it. The German pilot tried to swim ashore, but the current carried him out. Lieutenant Jacobs, who saw the crash from the Folkestone breakwaler, dived in and swam out to the exhausted German. He turned him on his back and supported him until a motor-boat arrived, when the rescued German was found to be suffering from a broken leg and a wounded right arrn. "Your Spitfires are too good for us," he said when brought ashore. , Lieutenant Jacobs later stated that he reached the wounded man only just m time.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 7
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