SALVAGE FEAT
RESOLUTE NEW ZEALAND PILOT.
BATTERED BOMBER LANDED IN ENGLAND.
(Special Correspondent.) LONDON, August 11
Flight Sergeant F. A. Schaw, Palmerston North, was the pilot of the Halifax bomber which reached England after a raid against the Ruhr, despite being hit by ack-ack fire and Junkers 88 cannon shells. The fabric and stays of the bomber were ripped away, and the starboard rudder and elevator put out of action. Shells burst across the wings, striking the port outer engine, and the petrol tanks were damaged.
The Halifax dropped from 11,000 feet to 5000 feet. Schaw said: “The starboard outer engine started to stutter and then all three remaining engines packed up. I gave the order to abandon the aircraft and the navigator, radio operator and flight engineer jumped. Then at 800 feet we were too low for anyone else to jump, but suddenly the port inner engine picked up. I was able to guide the aircraft between two trees, the wings hitting the branches, and I landed in a turnip field.” Schaw saw the port wing-tip on fire almost immediately .and he put out the flames by smothering them with a parachute and then stamping on them.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1942, Page 2
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