NAZI BOMBER’S FATE
DESTRUCTION BY BRITISH TRAWLER. SEEN TO CRASH INTO SEA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 24. Lieutenant J. H. A. Winfield, commander of the naval trawler Brabant, gave the following account of the engagement in which an enemy bomber was shot down into the sea: — “We were steaming along when I heard the noise of an aircraft. Then I saw it was a single twin-engined bomber. It was coming straight for us on the port side, flying at about 150 ft. I thought it was a Dornier. We were ready for instant action, but I held our fire till the enemy was close. Then we opened fire and I saw tracer bullets hit the aircraft. He dropped his bombs but they missed and as he passed over the stern we saw his port engine on fire. He was wobbling and quickly losing height and leaving a long train of smoke. By the time the bomber w'as half to threequarters of a mile away it was practically touching the water. Then it crashed into the sea."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 5
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177NAZI BOMBER’S FATE Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1941, Page 5
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