NAZI PLANES SHOT DOWN
(British Official Wireless.) (Received July 31, 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, July 30.
One petrol tank blazing on the surface of the water was all that remained of a Heinkel 111 bomber shot down on the east coast of Scotland today. Attacked by Spitfires over the sea, the German pilot tried hard to take cover behind thin wisps of cloud, while his rear gunner fought back Then the Heinkel dived westwards, trying to reach land. Five thousand feet above, the water the crew dropped 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-engine 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- Hurricane pilots 'reported that it crashed "from five to ten feet."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 8
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