TRAGIC ‘VICTORY ROLL’
PLANE FALLS IN SEA (10 a.m.) 1 LONDON, Sept. 18. While Flight Lieut. B. E. Green, D.C.F., was giving an exhibition flight in a Spitfire over the seafront during the Battle of Britain week display at Eastbourne yesterday, a small boy was allowed to talk to him from an K.A.F. radio control van on the shore. “Will you please do me a victory roll,” the boy asked. The pilot obliged. As he straightened out, he said: “Sorry son, that wasn’t a very good one.”
The pilot then started to do another roll, but in the middle of it the plane went into a dive and thousands of holiday-makers saw it crash into the sea and disappear. The wreck of the plane was found later but the pilot’s body has not yet been recovered.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 5
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136TRAGIC ‘VICTORY ROLL’ Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 5
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