RAIDS ON SCOTLAND
GERMAN “FLYING PENCIL” SHOT DOWN
AFTER PURSUIT CONTINUING INTO CLOUDS.
SUCCESSFUL R.A.F. ATTACK
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY. May 9. After shooting down in flames a German Dornier “Flying Pencil” raider off the north-east coast of Scotland today, R.A.F. Fighter Command pilots tried unsuccessful iy to save one of the crew, who jumped by parachute.
The Nazi airman fell into the sea about fourteen miles from land. When a launch, which the R.A.F. summoned by radio telephone reached the German he was dead.
Patrolling Hurricane pilots had chased the Dornier shortly before from a point just inland and, after hitting the raider, pursued it into the clouds and successfully continued the attack. SECOND NAZI VICTIM ' (Received This day . 12.40 p.m.) LONDON. May 9.
The Air Ministry announces that a second enemy plane was shot down in a combat on the north-east coast of Scotland.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1940, Page 6
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