Lightnings Shot Down Abandoned Bomber
(Special. 3.15 p.m.) SYDNEY. This Day. With nobody aboard, a Liberator heavy bomber was snot down into the Markham Valley, New Guinea, by a dozen Lightning fighters. The Liberator's crew of 1G bad parachuted to safety. Soon after setting cut on an operational mission, the Liberator's pilot found that the under-carriage of the-plane had been jammed. One wiled was up and the ether down, and neither could be moved. The American pilot headed the machine back towards its base, and by radio telephone, informed the ground staff that he could not land. After jettisoning his bomb-load, the pilot ordered his crew tc bale out. He then set the robot pilot which held the plane on a course headed for the mountains, after which he also baled out and landed unharmed. Lightnings which had been sent up then swooped on the Liberator and sent it crashing.
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Northern Advocate, 23 May 1944, Page 6
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