AIRMAN’S MISTAKE
LANDED IN GERMANY MISTAKEN FOR SCOTLAND STORY OF BOMBING DENIED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, August 29 It is officially stated in Berlin that Pilot-Officer Robert David Wawn, of Sydney, commanding a HampdenHereford aircraft of the 50th Bomber Squadron of the Royal Air Force, ! landed at Worms, on the Rhine north ' of Mannheim, thinking it was Scotland. He and three members of the crew stepped out of the machine and were lighting cigarettes when a party of soldiers and peasants captured them. The Berlin news agency says Pilot-Officer Wawn claimed that he had dropped six bombs on the Templehof aerodrome and set fire to three hangars. The agency adds: “This is not true. No bombs fell on the aeroI drome or in the neighbourhood during the night of August 25, which is the date given. 1 *
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 7
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139AIRMAN’S MISTAKE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 7
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