LONE BRITISH FIGHTER PILOT CAPTURES GERMAN E-BOAT
An amazing duel in the Mediterranean was reported recently in which a British fighter pilot lost his plane but returned safely in a captured German E-boat. While on a reconnaissance he spotted the E-boat "snooping around." Making repeated low level attacks he sprayed the E-boat with bullets from stem to stern, putting- her gun-turret out of action. Realising he had no possible chance of making base he "landed" his plane almost alongside the E-boat, scrambled out of the cockpit, swam to the E-boat and climbed aboard her. There he found most of the crew killed and the remainder wounded. A few minutes' tinkering enabled him to start the engine and gave him the very pleasant experience of piloting a German E-boat into an Allied harbour.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13668, 16 June 1942, Page 8
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