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CALLOUSNESS OF NAZIS GERMANS LOSE LIVES DRIFTERS MACHINE-GUNNED (Official WlflMess) (Received Sept. 7, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 6 An Admiralty communique states: German airmen again prevented the rescue of their comrades from the sea by British naval units. This morning three of His Majesty’s drifters attempted to rescue four German airmen who had baled out over the sea from a German bomber. The rescue was prevented by other German aircraft, which attacked the drifters with machine-gun fire. There were no casualties among the drifters. This morning also one of our motor torpedo boats was attacked and machine-gunned by German aircraft while proceeding to rescue the crews of a German aircraft shot down in the English Channel. Four of the crew of the motor torpedo boat were slightly wounded, and the attempt to rescue the German airmen was abandoned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 9
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141RESCUERS FIRED ON Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 9
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