BLOWN TO PIECES
GERMAN PLANE DESTROYED HIT BY NAZI BATTERIES EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received August 12, 1 p.m. LONDON, August 11 Amongst the reports of successful bombing attacks carried out by the Royal Air Force on Saturday is one from the crew of an aircraft which raided Flushing and had the extraordinary experience of seeing a German aircraft brought down by its own ground batteries. The British aircraft had just dropped a number of bombs across the Flushing aerodrome when suddenly the pilot saw an enemy machine, believed to be a Henschel 126, about 1000 yards away. As he watched, the aircraft received a direct hit from a shell. In the words of the British pilot, “it was blown to pieces.” The Henschel 126 notoriously resembles the design of the British Army co-operation Westland-Lysan-der, of which it is an imitation. It is thought that the German gunner, flustered by a bombing attack, may have fired on his own aircraft, believing it to be British.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21189, 12 August 1940, Page 8
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