N.Z. Airman’s Guns Freeze In Fight
‘Received 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, February 18. The machine-guns of a single-seater machine, piloted'by a New Zealander, troze after a short burst when trailing a Heinkel bomber, says a Paris message. The New Zealander, who had previously brought down two Dornier bombers, hung on the raider, hoping his guns would thaw, but the .Heinkel rear gunner ; opened heavy fire, conipeLing the New Zealander to land with the plane damaged beyond repair The raider returned to Germany. French planes have flown deeply into German territory in the last 24 hours. A French communique saysi "The Germans vainly attacked our outposts east of the Moselle,”
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Northern Advocate, 19 February 1940, Page 6
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