CAPTURE & ESCAPE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1941, Page 6

CAPTURE & ESCAPE

NAVAL AIR PILOT’S ADVENTURE TARGET OF BRITISH BOMBERS. WHILE IN GERMAN HANDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) RUGBY, November 28. Shot down by German troops and captured, a lieutenant in a squadron oi naval aircraft escaped when Blenheim bombers of the R.A.F. carried out an attack on a column conveying him westwards. The pilot returned to his base with a tank corp officer who escaped With him. “I was flying out to identify a column of motor transport when I was fired upon and badly hit, he said “I crash-landed and knew I was ‘in’ the bag.’ The Germans took me in a car with a British tank corps officer under the charge of a German officer’ and for three hours we headed west Then the Blenheims attacked us. It was very good, but highly unpleasant. Bombs rained down on the column, hitting trucks and lorries. To make way for wounded, we were turned out of the car and in the resultino, confusion of the raid despite there being a number of Germans still around us, we walked away and lay down in some camel thorn. What was left of the column moved away without us and we started walking south and reached by squadron on Wednesday night. Now I know what an attack by our bombers is like.”