KILBIRNIE PILOT'S FEAT
(By Telegraph—-Press Association—Copyright.)
(Special Correspondent.)
(Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, March 18. The engine of a Halifax bomber fell out of its nacelle when Flight Ser geant Maurice Marment (Kilbirnie) landed after an encounter with a night* fighter. Flight Sergeant Marment is one of many New Zealanders who have shown grit and determination in recent raids over Germany. He had bombed Stuttgart and was on his way home when a night fighter attacked him. hitting the propellers of two of the bomber s engines. Marment skilfully dodged the night fighter but one engine stopped immediately. Suddenly the starboard outer engine also petered out and a few minutes later the port outer engine began to run badly. It was difficult to maintain height with only H engines. The radio man sent out an 5.0.5., and the crew jettisoned everything movable and prepared to bail out, but Marment flew on unruffled and landed on > a strange airfield.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 64, 17 March 1943, Page 5
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