SPITFIRES TOO GOOD
<j, WOUNDED GERMAN AIRMAN’S ADMISSION. AFTER BEING RESCUED FROM THE SEA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. During heavy fighting over the sea coast yesterday Lieutenant Jacobs, an officer of the Royal Engineers, saved a German pilot-sergeant from drowning after a Messerschmitt was shot down in the sea by a direct hit from one of the two Spitfires pursuing it. The German pilot tried to swim ashore but the current carried him out and Lieutenant Jacobs who saw the ’crash from Folkestone breakwater dived in and swam out to the exhausted German. He turned him on his back and supported him until a motor-boat arrived. When rescued the German was found to be suffering from a broken leg and a wounded right arm. “Your Spitfires are too good for us,” he said when brought ashore. Lieutenant Jacobs later stated that he reached the wounded man only just in time.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 6
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