DOWNED PLANE TO AID
FUNDS
Its fighting wings clipped by the Royal Air Force, a Messerschmitt 109, crated and boxed, arrived recently at New York from Canada to begin a tour of the United States under the i sponsorship of Bundles for Britain. The aeroplane was sent to America by Lord Beaverbrook at the request ofj Mrs. Winston Churchill, honorary] sponsor of Bundles for Britain. AH revenue from its exhibition will be devoted to the organisation's fund for relief of bombed-out civilians of the British Isles. Riddled by machine-gun bullets and anti-aircraft shells, the yellow-nosed fighter plane had accounted for five British aeroplanes, as stripes on its tail assembly bear witness. Its travel in the States is under special Government guard. Lord Mottistone's famous horse Warrior, which carried him through the Great War and was almost human, had to be destroyed through illness after 20 pleasant years of retirement in the green fields of the Isle of Wight, j
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 9
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159DOWNED PLANE TO AID Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 9
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