DOOMED DORNIER
PROBABLY DESTROYED BY TRAWLER SHELLS &. BULLETS GET HOME. LOUD EXPLOSION HEARD IN HAZE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.40 a.m.) RUGBY, March 14. An Admiralty communique states: A Dornier 17 probably was destroyed yesterday by His Majesty’s trawler Milford Queen. The first shell from the Milford Queen burst close under the nose of the aircraft and threw it off its course. The second shell burst close under the starboard engine, which caught fire. Tracer bullets from the trawler’s Lewis guns were also seen entering the cockpit of the aircraft. The Dornier was not seen to crash, but disappeared in haze, losing height, with smoke and flames coming from its starboard engine. A few seconds later the crew of the Milford Queen heard a loud explosion. No damage or casualties were sustained by the Milford Queen.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 6
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138DOOMED DORNIER Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 6
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