SEIZES NAZI AIRMAN.—Mrs Daisy Cardwell, wife of a north-east coast L.D.V. officer, arrested a German airman who came down by parachute in a field alongside her house. The prisoner was the pilot of a Junkers machine brought down by Spitfires. When she heard that a parachutist was coming down she walked out into the field and commanded the airman to put up his hands, then took his revolver and marched him off.
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Evening Star, Issue 23657, 17 August 1940, Page 17
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72SEIZES NAZI AIRMAN.—Mrs Daisy Cardwell, wife of a north-east coast L.D.V. officer, arrested a German airman who came down by parachute in a field alongside her house. The prisoner was the pilot of a Junkers machine brought down by Spitfires. When she heard that a parachutist was coming down she walked out into the field and commanded the airman to put up his hands, then took his revolver and marched him off. Evening Star, Issue 23657, 17 August 1940, Page 17
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