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GERMAN AND BRITISHER SHOT EACH OTHER DOWN PLANES SET ON FIRE (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 21, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 20 A Hurricane squadron pilot officer and a German sub-lieutenant who shot each other down off the Thames Estuary shared the same rescue boat. During an attack on 50 enemy aircraft a pilot officer shot down two Messerschmitt 110 fighter bombers. One of them hit and set on fire his own machine. “I baled out, falling into the sea,” he said. “I noticed two other parachutes coming down. One fell close by. A German sub-lieutenant was using it.”
Another Hurricane pilot, when shot down, made his way to a nearby aerodrome and was told that the pilot ot the Messerschmitt which he had attacked had also baled out and landed near the same aerodrome.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21224, 21 September 1940, Page 9
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137SHARE RESCUE BOAT Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21224, 21 September 1940, Page 9
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