NAZI ’PLANE CRASHES.
FORCED LANDING IN HOLLAND. FIRED ON BY THE DUTCH. i (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) THE HAGUE, Nov. 20. A German military plane crashed in Dutch territory while attempting to make a forced landing. The pilot was killed. It is officially stated that Dutch antiaircraft guns fired on the plane before it crashed. The ’plane, which was broken in three parts, was partly buried beside the River Roer, with the body of the pilot, who was 18 years of age, leaning out of the cockpit. It is semi-officially stated in Berlin, according to a message from that city, that one German pilot was seriously injured in the encounter with, a Dutch plane yesterday, but it is denied that the plane was inside Dutch territorial waters.'
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 35, 21 November 1939, Page 5
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