GERMAN AIRMEN
TRYING ORDEAL IN NORTH SEA. ( LANDING ON ENGLISH COAST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright J (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, October 19. Ono of the two German aviators who r had been drifting helplessly in the North Sea since Tuesday evening and landed on the coast of England in a rubber dinghy, left his wounded com- j panion in the boat ashore and struggled up a cliff 200 feet high. He entered a railway tunnel, where lie encountered a Civil Guard. The aviator inquired whether he was near the Firth of Forth. He said he had a comrade below and a rescue party carried the wounded man to the top of the cliff in a stretcher. The prisoners are aged 22 years. They said two other members of the crew were killed during the raid.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1939, Page 6
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