WOUNDS UNHEEDED
TRAWLER’S GUNNER RAIDER DRIVEN OFF LONDON, Nov. 22 An 18-year-old youth named Trimmer sprang to the machine-guns and opened fire when a German bomber emerged from a snowstorm and attacked the Grimsby trawler Chandos in the North Sea .fishing grounds. The raider circled over the trawler attacking with machine-guns and cannons from mast height. After the third attack the raider was severely damaged. Almost obscured in its own smoke it limped away losing height. Only then the gunner collapsed. His comrades found lie had been hit four times in the legs. The captain of the Chandos was killed. When the trawler was operating in the same area some davs later, pieces of the tail of a German aeroplane were found in the net.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 2
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125WOUNDS UNHEEDED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20623, 26 November 1941, Page 2
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