AIR FORCE TRAGEDIES
BLACK PERIOD IN BRITAIN SCHOOLBOY PASSENGER ON ONE BOMBER SAVED Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, July 21. (Received July 22, at 11 a.m.) When the tail of his bomber was sliced off by the propellor of another machine near Wittering Royal Air Force station Sergeant-Pilot J, A. Bullard pushed his schoolboy passenger into space and shouted: “ Don’t get scared, count five and pull the ripcord.” , , , The boy a parachute opened and floated him safely to the ground. Bullard then tried to use his own parachute but was unable to climb out of the wildly spinning plane until too near the ground. Bullard was killet instantly. . Two Royal Air Force planes collided in mid-air near Deal and three men were killed. , ' A Royal Air Force bomber crashed near Driffield and three were killed. Another bomber with a crew of two plunged into the sea eight miles south of Bridlington. The crew, it is feared, were killed. Eye-witnessies said the plane, after dropping a bomb, hit the water and vanished in a cloud of smoke. '
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Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 15
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175AIR FORCE TRAGEDIES Evening Star, Issue 23325, 22 July 1939, Page 15
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