UNLUCKY BOMBER
BRITISH MACHINE DESTROYED IN ERROR. SWIFT ATTACK BY FIGHTERS. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. LONDON. Marell 2. It is reported that in the accidental destruction of a British plane in Hit' neighbourhood of Gravesend, fighters swooped up from an East Coast station and attacked a British bomber that was flying southward, mistaking it foi' a German. An eyewitness said that the fighters circled and machine-gunned Hie bomber, setting lire tn its wings. Flames enveloped the whole plane. Which began to disintegrate. The tail dropped oil' before the machine crashed on a farm at Meopham. scattering the engines and component parts over the fields.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 5
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