PADDLING TO ENGLAND
AIRMAN’S GALLANT EFFORT. AFTER BEING SHOT DOWN IN CHANNEL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, March 16. The navigating feat of a commander of a fighter squadron in crossing the English Channel in a rubber dinghy was revealed when a destroyer picked him up 15 miles from the tip of Portland Bill. Squadron-Leader J. Carver crashed on the evening of March 12 after a fight with a Junkers 88, which another pilot later destroyed. He started to paddle his dinghy to England, and he drifted for many miles up and down the Channel at each successive tide, but steadily neared the coast. By laborious toil he had managed to cover a distance equivalent to over 4< miles in a straight line when the destroyer found him at 3 a.m. on March 16, alternately blowing a whistle and singing.
He good humouredly resented being picked up, saying fie would have reached Portland Bill by daylight. The navigating officer of the destroyer worked out that he was correct.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1942, Page 4
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