“Lion s Wings” Star Crashes
| Sub.-Lieutenant Richardson, Eleet ! Air Arm—Ralph Richardson, star of “The Lion Has Wings,” . film of the Kiel Canal raid—escaped uninjured when his plane crashed and caught fire in Hampshire recently, j Engine-trouble forced an emerg- ' ency landing, but the plane overshot a field, skimmed under an oak tree, ; severing its tail, across a road, through a hedge, and pancaked in a garden. Sub.-Lieutenant Richardson jumped ; out, and as the flames spread, I helped his wireless operator, AbleSeaman Alan Todd, who strained his right arm, to safety,
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Northern Advocate, 1 February 1940, Page 3
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