STEEP & LOW
DIVE BY BOMBER PILOT ON TO ENEMY SHIP. AERIAL LEFT DRAPED ON MAST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, September 23. Diving steeply, to plant a salvo of bombs on the deck of a 5000-ton German supply ship off the Norwegian coast, the pilot of a Beaufort aircraft of the Coastal Command went so low that he left, entwined round the ship’s mast, one of the aerials which had been fixed along the side of his aircraft. , Patrolling off the coast in daylig t the pilot sighted a supply ship in a convoy Down went the nose of the Beaufort and only when he was below mast height did the pilot pull o n sharply. He scraped over the-mas; s but the aerial became entangled and was wrenched off. As the Beaulm t swept over the ship bombs fel in a salvo and at least one, possibly he whole salvo, found a mark aft of the ship’s superstructure. After getting out of the range of machine-gun fire, which opened up from the ship ti c Beaufort circled. The ship was seen to be much lower in the water and there was a cloud of brownish-black smoke hanging over it. Apart from the loss o its aerial the Beaufort returned unmarked. -.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1941, Page 5
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