“Your Spitfires Are Too Good for Us! ”
(British Official Wireless) Received Wednesday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, Sept. 24.
During heavy fighting over the sea coast yesterday Lieutenant Jacobs, an officer of the Royal Engineers, saved a German pilot-sergeant from drowning after a Messerschmitt was shot down in the soa by a direct hit from one of the two Spitfires pursuing it. The German pilot tried to swim ashore but the current carried him out and Lieutenant Jacobs who saw the crash from Folkestone breakwater dived in and swam out to tho exhausted German. Tie turned him on his back and supported him until a motor-boat arrived. When rescued the German was found to be suffering from a broken leg and a wounded right arm. “Your Spitfires are too good for us,” he said when brought ashore. Lieutenant Jacobs later stated that he reached tho wounded man only just in time.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 228, 26 September 1940, Page 7
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