RHINE ISLAND
TAKEN BY BRITISH PILOT (Rec. 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, Mar. 25. A British double D.F.C. wing commander, climbing out of his crippled plane on Friday on an island in the Rhine near Wesel, accepted three hours later the surrender of a company of Germans defending the island, says Reuter’s corresp: ndent. The wing commander paddled an old canoe across the Rhine to tell British troops that 300 prisoners awaited them on the island. .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25804, 27 March 1945, Page 5
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