SEIZES NAZI AIRMAN—Mrs Daisy Cardwell, wife of a British north-east coast L.D.V. officer, arrested a German airman who came down by parachute in a field alongside her house. The prisoner was the pilot of a Junkers machine brought down by Spitfires. When she heard that a parachutist was coming down, she walked out into the field and commanded the airman to put up his hands, then took his revolver and marched him off.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1940, Page 6
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73SEIZES NAZI AIRMAN—Mrs Daisy Cardwell, wife of a British north-east coast L.D.V. officer, arrested a German airman who came down by parachute in a field alongside her house. The prisoner was the pilot of a Junkers machine brought down by Spitfires. When she heard that a parachutist was coming down, she walked out into the field and commanded the airman to put up his hands, then took his revolver and marched him off. Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1940, Page 6
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