BRAVE ENEMY PILOT
THOUGHT FOR COMRADES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, October 29. The German reconnaissance machine shot down near Dalkeith. Scotland, on Saturday bore traces of devastating British machine-gun fire. The British fighter pilots speak with admiration of the pilot, who. though suffering from numerous wounds, pancaked his machine on a hillside and staggered out of the machine with the aid of the navigator, who was the only unwound ed member of lhe crew. He said in English to a policeman, “We surrender as prisoners of war. Please see to my gunners.” But both gunners were dead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 October 1939, Page 5
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