12 DAYS MISSING
PILOT & OBSERVER TURN UP
JBrittsli OtticlaJ Wireless.) (Received January 4, 2 p.m.)
RUGBY, January 3
The pilot and the observer of a British bomber which was last seen in flames over the enemy lines in south Albania twelve days ago have just returned to their base, says the Air Ministry news service.
The pilot told of how he gave the order to the crew to jump out. The observer did so, but the air gunner had been killed.
Describing his own experience, the pilot said: "Part of my parachute harness, which I discovered afterwards had been struck by bullets, was caught round my leg, and as the parachute opened it jerked my leg up behind my neck and broke it Italian fighters came after me and put twenty bullets through my parachute—we counted the holes later.
"The observer , came down in a village further away in the valley. After half an hour Greek soldiers found me and, bandaged me as best they could and found a stretcher. For four days they carried me cheerfully over the mountains, often through deep streams and along mountain tracks with precipitous edges. It was a long and slow journey."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 8
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19812 DAYS MISSING Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 3, 4 January 1941, Page 8
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