GOOD SHOOTING
DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY FIGHTER BY GUNNER OF HUDSON SOMBER. ENCOUNTER OVER HOLLAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, July 3. An Air Ministry bulletin describes the shooting down by the rear-gunner of a Hudson Coastal Command aircraft of a Messerschmitt 109 fighter over Holland today. The first that the pilot, navigator and wireless operator in front of the Hudson knew of the gunner’s success was when they saw the flaming and smoking fighter pass underneath them and go spinning to earth. The Hudson had just carried out a bombing attack on a target near Amsterdam, where a column of smoke had shot up as the aircraft flew off. The Messerschmitt appeared a few moments later and manoeuvred into position for an attack. Before it could start its dive, it had fallen a victim to the Hudson's gunner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 July 1940, Page 6
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