Nazi Gunner Brings Down Own Plane
PARACHUTE TANGLE (British Officii! Wireless) (Received 5, 12.45 pjn.> RUGBY, Oct. 4. A German bomber has been brought down e bj its own rear gunner. This unusual happening was recounted by a squadron-leader who wf6 flying a Hurricane aver East London at the time. The squadron-leader had Juct destroyed a Junkcrs-88 bomber, states an Air Ministry bulletin, and was looking round for another German to attack when he saw a Dornier-17 detach from Its formation. The squadron-leader went In to attack. ‘‘The result,” said, “was startling I got no return fire, but the rear gunner immediately baled out. In so doing, he wrapped his parachute round the tail plane. This started the Dornler doing steep dives, followed by zooms on to its back. After a couple of these, two members of the crew baled out from the rfont and left the Dornler doing its acrobatics along with the rear gunner. “When last seen, it was making a vertical dive into a cloud at about 4,000 feet. It probably crashed in or just south of the Thames Estuary.**
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 237, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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