AMAZING JOURNEY HOME
Hudson Bomber
(British Official Wireless.! (Received November 23, 8.50 p.m.) RUGBY, November 22.
The story of one of the most amazing journeys back to Britain by a damaged Hudson aircraft is mid in an Air Ministry bulletin. A Hudson of tlie Coastal Command had been harassing the German sea supply route to Nazi armies in Russia along the Norwegian coast, and had already jtenetrated some 45 miles into a fiord searching every nook and cranny when it struck a rock on one of tlie little islands of the fiord. A large hole was knocked in the bottom of the aircraft and the port engine stopped. Just as the pitot was preparing to put down on the water, however, it started up again, and the aircraft was navigated safely back to England with bent propellers, and unable to release its bombs because the bomb door had been damaged by the blow.on the rock. The charts had also all been lost through a hole which had been knocked in the roof.
When the plane eventually reached an aerodrome it made a crash landing and skidded along the runway on loaded bombracks. It nearly overran lhe aerodrome altogether, but a portable petrol pump got. in the way and no one suffered more than a few bruises.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 51, 24 November 1941, Page 8
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