RESCUE OF PILOTS
TWO PICKED UP IN CHANNEL. AFTER SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON ENEMY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, August 19. Rescues of R.A.F. pilots are described by the Air Ministry in its account of today's fighter sweep over North- * ern France, in which eight enemy machines were destroyed. Six R.A.F. aircraft were lost, but the pilots of two are safe. Both were rescued by the air and sea rescue service. One is a Belgian, who shot down a Messerschmitt yesterday. He climbed into his rubber dinghy when he came down in the water and was picked up an hour later.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 6
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