AMERICAN AIRMEN
INTERNED IN SWITZERLAND. FLYING FORTRESS CREWS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, September 6. Four American Flying Fortresses, which are believed to have participated in a raid against Germany, made forced landings in Switzerland yesterday, and their crews were interned, says the British United Press Berne correspondent. A fifth Flying Fortress fell into Lake Constance, after being hit by German anti-aircraft batteries. Nine members of its crew were rescued and interned. The tenth was killed. American parachutists who dropped on Swiss soil from another Flying Fortress, were also interned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1943, Page 4
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