CAPTURED A GERMAN
NEW ZEALANDER'S PART (By Telegraph.—special to Time*) THAMES, Thursday A Thames member of the second echelon, Corporal L. P. Hays, with the aid of a comrade, captured a German pilot who had baled out, according to a letter received trom him by relatives in Thames. Corporal Hays and a friend were on leave in a small town when a raid warning sounded. Two hours later another raid occurred and when they emerged trom their shelter they saw a German aeroplane on fire and the pilot coming to earth by parachute. They rushed to where he landed, secured his revolver and made him captive.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 4
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106CAPTURED A GERMAN Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 29241, 11 October 1940, Page 4
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