ON TWO ENGINES
LANCASTER GETS HOME p- 11 1 AFTER BEING BADLY HIT. PILOT'S REMARKABLE FEAT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, May 30. One Lancaster pilot, Sergeant John McCrossen, was on his way to Wuppertal when his plane was hit by a burst from a heavy shell, and the starboard outer engine gave out. McCrossen went on and bombed his target. On the way nome, the Lancaster was again hit and the port outer engine was virtually put out of action. The bomb doors would not close and the plane began to lose height. McCrossen ordered the crew to get ready to jump and to jettison guns, ammunition, armoured plating and even the rest bed. Then, with only two engines working properly, he managed to keep the Lancaster flying at 3,000 feet across Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 3
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