GERMAN RAIDER
SHOT DOWN TO SINK IN SEA
ATTACKED AT ALTITUDE OF FIVE MILES. COMEAT EAST OF ABERDEEN. iPritir.h Official Wireless.) <Received This Dav. 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY. March 7. A German Heinkel raider which was attacked by Spitfires of the Royal Ail' Force Command was shot down from a height of more than five miles above the sda east of Aberdeen this afternoon. The Spitfires’ pilots, one of whoir was a Now Zealander w. re on patrol when they first sighted the Reinke! They attacked in turns as then enemy dived, closing in for each of machine-gun fire.
The Heinkel, on I of action, landed on the water and the- Spitfire pilots circled about watching for live minutes until the Tfeinl’.e) sank.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 March 1940, Page 6
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