NAZI BOMBER'S FATE
BROUGHT DOWN BY ITS OWN
REAR GUNNER
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 5, 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, October 4,
A German bomber has been brought down by its own rear gunner. This unusual victory over, self was told by a squadron leader who was flying a Hurricane over east London at the time.
The squadron leader had just destroyed a Junkers 88, states an" Air Ministry bulletin, and was looking round for another German to attack when he saw a Dornier 17 break away from its formation. The squadron leader went in to attack it. "The result," he said, "was startling. I got no return fire, but the rear gunner immediately baled out and in so doing wrapped his parachute round the tail of the plane. This started the Dornier doing steep dives, followed by zooms on to its back. After a couple of these two members of the crew baled out from in front and left the Dornier doing its acrobatics along with the rear gunner. When last seen it was making a vertical dive into cloud at about 4000 feet. It probably crashed in or just south of the Thames Estuary."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 84, 5 October 1940, Page 12
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