FORCED PARACHUTE DESCENT
DUNEDIN MOSQUITO PILOT (R.N.Z.A.F. Official News Service.) LONDON, February 26. Because the starboard engine was on fire and the fuselage was splattered with shell siplinters, a New Zealand Mosquito pilot, Flying-officer F. L. Henry (Dunedin) was forced to bale out after a recent attack on Berlin. Henry's aircraft was one of the first to attack Berlin on this particular night, and the attack had just been completed when the aircraft was caught by a severe burst of flak from the centre of the city. The engine was hit and the electrical system shot away. For 20 minutes the crippled Mosquito flew towards France and lost height
steadily. Henry struggled to maintain, a level flight, but after dropping from 24,000 to 7,000 feet, the aircraft went into a spin. After the navigator, an Australian, had haled out, Henry followed. He landed near the small French village of Marchiennes. Apart from slight abrasions, they were not injured, and some days later they were both back in England.
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Evening Star, Issue 25422, 1 March 1945, Page 9
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