SKILFUL LANDINC
DAMAGED BRITISH BOMBER CREW PARACHUTE. PILOT BRINGS DOWN PLANE ALONE. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day. 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. December 27. With the undercarriage and wing-; flaps out of action as the result of enemy anti-aircraft fire, a Royal Air ■Force bomber returning from a reconnaissance flight over Ihe north-west German coast made a safe forced landing at an English aerodrome at night. The pilot ordered the crew to land by parachute and brought the bomber down alone. The crew scattered over the countryside. Local residents first mistook them for German spies until their identification was established.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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99SKILFUL LANDINC Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 6
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