SAVED ENEMY PILOT
OFFICER OF ENGINEERS SWAM OUT FROM FOLKESTONE (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 24. (Received Sept. 25, at 7 p.m.) During heavv fighting over the sea coast yesterday Lieutenant Jacobs, an officer of the Royal Engineers, saved a German pilot-sergeant from drowning after his Messerschmitt was shot down in the sea by a direct hit from one of two Spitfires pursuing it. - The German pilot tried to swim ashore, but the current carried him out. Jacobs, who saw the crash from Folkestone breakwater, dived in and swam out to the exhausted German. He turned him on his back and supported him until a motor boat, arrived, when the rescued German was found to be suffering from a broken leg and a wound in the right arm.
“ Your Spitfires are too good for us.” he said when brought ashore. Jacobs later stated that he reached the wounded man only iust ih time.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 8
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