DOOMED RAIDERS
FATE OF NAZI PLANES CAUGHT BY BRITISH FIGHTERS. DRIVEN TO DESTRUCTION IN SEA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 30. One petrol tank blazing on the surface of .the water was all that remained of a Heinkel 111 bomber shot down on the East Coast 'of Scotland today. Attacked by Spitfires over the sea, the German pilot tried hard to take cover behind thin wisps of cloud, while his rear gunner fought back. Then the Heinkel dived westwards. trying to reach land. Five thousand feet above the water, the crew dropped bombs in a last effort to keep the aircraft under control, but. as one of the Spitfire pilots, said, “it smashed flaming into the sea.” A fight by Hurricanes against a Mes-J serschmitt 110 twin-engine fighter, off' the East Anglian coast this afternoon, was very different. The Messerschmitt, instead of diving to destruction, was attacked as it flew almost touching the wave tops. The Hurricane pilots reported that it crashed "from five to ten feet."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1940, Page 6
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