UNUSUAL FEAT
ENEMY FIGHTER SHOT DOWN.
ATTACKED BY BRITISH BOMBER.
ACTION OVER GERMANY (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, November 28. A Royal Air Force bomber’s unusual feat of shooting down an enemy fighter by night was described by a sergeant air-gunner “We were on the way back from bombing Hamburg when two antiaircraft shells hit us, but the aircraft was still in good shape,” said the narrator. “Over Bremerhaven searchlights caught us, but there was no attempt to renew the anti-aircraft fire. Very soon we saw why they were letting us alone. An M.E. 109 was coming for us from behind the searchlight beam. When I saw it there were only 100 yards between us, there was a burst of machine-gun fire and a number of bullets hit us. I fired both guns and caught the Messerschmitt just as it did a steep bank right over* our wing. My pilot told me afterwards that he saw it flash past our nose, flames pouring from it. A few seconds later I saw it again, plunging straight down, Hitting the ground, it explod’d at once.—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 42, 29 November 1940, Page 5
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