AIR CREW CAPTURED
UNARMED CIVILIAN LONDON, May 15, A 50-year-old Scottish gardener, Mr. George Muir, to-day told how he captured the crew of a German bomber single-handed. While cycling to work in the war cemetery at Vingtannum, in France, he saw a large aircraft crash. He ran to the aeroplane to give assistance. “I was surprised to see five Germans leave the machine carrying injured comrades,” he said. "I was unarmed, but I challenged them, and they dropped the wounded and appeared about to run. “I know few words of German, but I called out, ‘Disarm,’ A sergeant put his hand to his revolver, then shrugged, slowly withdrew the weapon and handed it to me butt first. “Another Scottish gardener ran up, armed with a spade. Together we guarded the Germans until members of the R.A.F, arrived and took theirs prisoners.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20253, 22 May 1940, Page 12
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