“VICTORY OVER SELF”
END OF GERMAN BOMBER BROUGHT DOWN BY ITS OWN REAR GUNNER. SQUADRON-LEADER’S STORY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.35 p.iri.) RUGBY, October 4. A German bomber has been brought down by its own rear gunner. This unusual victory over self was told by a squadron-leader who was flying -a Hurricane over East London at the time. He had just destroyed a Junkers 88, states an Air Ministry bulletin, and was looking round for another German to attack, when he saw a Dornier 17 detach from its formation. The squad-ron-leader went in to attack and says: “The result was startling. I got no return fire, but the rear-gunner immediately bailed out and, in so doing, wrapped his parachute round the tail of the plane. This started the Dornier doing steep dives, followed by zooms on to its back. After a couple of these, two members of the crew bailed out from in front and left the Dornier doing its acrobatics along with the rear gunner. When last seen it was making a vertical dive into a cloud at about 4000 feet and it probably crashed in or just south of the Thames Estuary.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1940, Page 6
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