CAUGHT NAPPING
DORNIER RAIDER
SEEN TO BE DISABLED
(British Official TVireleaa.)
(Received April 1, 11 a.m.)
RUGBY, March 31. A Dornier raider was.caught napping -\ by a single Spitfire of the R.A.F. . Fighter Command far out over "th«. North Sea today. When last seen byji the Spitfire, the Dornier was flying low, over the water in a disabled condition, i The Spitfire, with one other fighter from the same squadron, was on patrojv shortly after1 noon oft the Suffolk coast?j flying at about 16,000 feet, when 'the , pilot sighted what seemed to be eriemy^ aircraft a thousand feet below. Hf recognised it as a Dornier, but to hisr surprise the enemy-did not'appear:to. see him. Slipping astern of theJDorriier,'. ';,,' he fired two bursts of machine-gun' bullets. The German pilot, awakening, to the danger, stalled, and. went into . a steep dive of 15,000 feet down to.sea '].■; level. The Spitfire pilot followed, watching as he dived the German, airgunner fire for ten seconds without effect. At sea level the Dornier flattened out and "flew eastwards ,with, black ■ smoke pouring from its siiar-, board'engine and with its • starboard ' wing down. ',
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 7
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185CAUGHT NAPPING Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 77, 1 April 1940, Page 7
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