TWO GERMAN AVIATORS
WASHED UP AT WHITBY [BY CABLE —PBESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recd. October 20, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 19. Two German aviators were washed up at Whitby, in a collapsible rubber dinghj r and were arrested. They were shot down in Tuesday s raid. One was wounded in the leg and both were exhausted. The two German aviators had been drifting helplessly in the North Sea Tuesday evening. Leaving his wounded companion in the boat ashore, the othei’ struggled up a cliff 200 feet high ,and entered a railway tunnel, where he encountered a civil guard. The aviator inquired whether he was near the Firth of Forth. He said that ho had a comrade below. A rescue party carried the wounded man to the top of the cliff, on a stretcherThe prisoners are aged 22. They said that two other members of the crew were killed during the raid.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 20 October 1939, Page 8
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