ANOTHER RAID ?
South-East Scotland Alarm
(Received October 20, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, October 20. The air alarm has just been given in the south-east of Scotland.
German Aviators
WASHED UP AT WHITBY.
LONDON, October 19.
Two German aviators were washed up at Whitby, in a collapsible rubber dinghy, and were ame r ded. 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 since Tuesday evening. Leaving his wounded companion in the boat ashore, the other 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 he had a comrade below.
A rescue party carried the wounded man to the top of the cliff, on a stretcher.
The prisoners are aged 22. They said that two other members of the crew were killed during the raid.
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Grey River Argus, 21 October 1939, Page 7
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