AIR PUPILS IN ACTION
ENEMY PLANES SHOT DOWN
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 12. A Junkers 88 plane was shot down into the sea off the Scottish coast yesterday after a brief encounter with a British bomber manned entirely by pupils under training.
The British aircraft was a heavy night-bomber type and was engaged on a daylight exercise flight when the enemy machine was sighted approaching the Scottish coast. The German pilot turned in to the attack from the bomber's port quarter and, opening fire with the front guns at 150 yards, passed right underneath the British aircraft.
Swinging his turret as the Junkers swept past below, the British rear gunner caught the enemy bomber as it reappeared on the starboard quarter, and three short bursts sent it diving into the sea. After a vain search for survivors the crew resumed its interrupted training flight, the whole encounter having lasted 45 seconds.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1940, Page 7
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152AIR PUPILS IN ACTION Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1940, Page 7
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