NAZI ACE
IN FIGHTER OF LATEST TYPE FORCED DOWN BY BRITISH BOMBER. PILOT & MACHINE CAPTURED IN KENT. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON. July 11. A heavy British bomber scored a spectacular success, forcing down one of Germany's latest high altitude fighters, a Messerschmitt 109 F, after an encounter on the Kent coast. The fighter, which is the first of its type to fall into British hands, landed undamaged except for a bent propeller. Soldiers took prisoner the pilot. Captain Rolf Pingel, an ace member of Goering's yellow-nosed squadron, who is credited with 22 aerial ' victories.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1941, Page 5
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