BATTERED FLYING FORTRESSES
150 ATTACKS SUSTAINED CREW RESCUED FROM SEA Rugby, June 24. Thirty minutes after crashing into the sea the crew of a Flying Fortress which sustained 150 attacks during its first mission over enemy territory, was picked up by the Air-Sea Rescue Service. A running battle lasted an hour and after which the plane crashed into the sea off the Belgian coast. R.A.F. Spitfires came to the rescue over Holland, escorting it until it fell into the sea. When the plane finally went down three engines were out of commission, the tail wheel had been blown off, the landing gear and dragging hydraulic system were out of action the radio transmitter hit, the top of the vertical tail was shot away, the pilot’s controls were useless, and all the windows in the cockpit and nose had been blasted out.—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 25 June 1943, Page 5
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