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CREW RESCUED FROM SEA Rec. 11.40 a.m. RUGBY, June 24. Thirty minutes after crashing into the sea. the crew of a Flying Fortress which sustained 150 attacks during its first mission over enemy territory were picked up by the air sea rescue service. A running battle lasted for an hour and three-quarters; after which the plane crashed into the sea off the Belgian coast. R.A.F. Spitfires came to the rescue of the Fortress over Holland and escorted it until it fell into the sea. When the plane finally went | down three of the engines were out lof commission, the tail wheel had been blown off, the landing gear was dragging, the hydraulic system was out of action, the radio transmitter had been I hit, the top of the vertical tail had been shot away, the pilot's controls were useless, and all the windows in the cockpit and the nose had been blasted out.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 149, 25 June 1943, Page 5
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