ONLY A TANK.
BLAZING ON THE SEA. ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF RAIDER. (Received This Day, 1.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 30. One petrol tank blazing on the surface of the water was all that remained of a Heinkel 111 bomber shot down off the east coast of Scotland to-day. Attacked by Spitfires over the sea, the German pilot tided hard to take cover behind thin wisps of cloud while his rear gunner fought hack. Then the Heinkel diyed westwards, trying to reach land. Five thousand feet above the water the crew dropped their bombs in a last effort to keep the aircraft under control, but, as one of the, Spitfire pilots said, “it smashed flaming into the sea.’’ A fight by Hurricanes against a Messerschmitt 110 twin-engined fighter off the East Anglian coast this afternoon was very different. The Messerschmitt, instead of diving to destruction, was attacked as it flew almost touching the wave-tops. The Hurricane pilots reported that it crashed “from five to ten feet."—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 251, 31 July 1940, Page 6
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