FIRE IN BOMBER
COURAGEOUS CZECHS MACHINE BROUGHT HOME LONDON, Aug. 9. The Czech crew of a Wellington bomber, by coolness and courage, recently brought home their aircraft safely under great difficulties. The bomber was returning from an attack when, just over the Dutch coast, it was fired upon by a German night fighter. Cannon shells burst in the bomb compartment and set the aircraft on fire. The. captain turned the machine back over Holland to enable the crew to bale out if the fire could not be extinguished. Determined effort: were made, and after 15 minutes the fire was put out. It had burned the fabric off the top and bottom of one wing, and from alongside the fuselage. Inside the aircraft it had destroyed various pieces of equipment, and the wireless would no longer work, the under-carriage dropped and stayed down, and the bomb doors fell hall open and remained open for the remainder of the flight. The pilot turned once more to sea and brought the bomber home. All the crew escaped injury except for minor burns.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20632, 13 August 1941, Page 9
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