SHOT DOWN NEAR DUNKIRK
Invercargill Airman Injured
RESCUED FROM SEA BY DESTROYER
Shot down in a British fighter plane while taking part in the evacuation of Allied troops from Dunkirk, FlyingOfficer M. K. Carswell, a Southland boy, was wounded and is now convalescing in a British hospital. Flying-Officer Carswell, who is the youngest son of Mr J. T. Carswell, of Invercargill, was wounded during an engagement with German fighter machines over the North Sea near Dunkirk. He was forced down into the sea and was picked up by a British destroyer and taken to hospital. Well known in cricket and tennis circles before he left Invercargill, Fly-ing-Officer Carswell went to England in 1937 and joined the Royal Air Force. He has been engaged in day and night flying since the outbreak of the war and until his latest engagement, he came through several brushes with enemy fighters without injury.
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Southland Times, Issue 24164, 28 June 1940, Page 4
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149SHOT DOWN NEAR DUNKIRK Southland Times, Issue 24164, 28 June 1940, Page 4
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