STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
EXPERIENCE OF BRITISH PLANES MACHINE THROWN UP 600 FEET. AIRMEN MOMENTARILY BLINDED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY. July 25. An Air Ministry communique states: "Heavy rain, thunderstorms, and severe icing conditions hampered our bomber operations last night. In spite of this docks at Emden, Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg, aircraft factories at Wismar and Wenzendorf and seaplane bases at Borkum and Texel were attacked. All our aircraft returned safely. Reports from pilots taking part in the raid show that some of the worst weather yet encountered in this summer was overcome. One bomber was hit by a flash of lightning, which momentarily blinded both the pilot and the navigator, while the aircraft itself was shot up some 600 feet. The wireless set of another bomber was made red hot by lightning and other instruments made temporarily unserviceable. The compass started a swirl, which took forty minutes to settle down.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 July 1940, Page 6
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