FRENCH PILOT CRASHES THREE GERMAN PLANES
(Received 14, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oct 13. The Pari) correspondent of The Times states that a French airman diving in succession on three Mes•erschmitts which were about to land on an aerodrome, crashed them all. A reconnaissance machine in charge of a pilot and observer encountered three enemy plane which killed the pilot and twice wounded the observer, who, before he died, managed to land behind the French lines with the photographs intact. The Germans attacked and set fire to a third reconnaissance plane and killed the observer as he parachuited to earth. The pilot landed the machine Behind his own lines and saved the photographs despite severe burns. #
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 244, 16 October 1939, Page 8
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