FUNERAL OF NAZI AIRMEN
R.A.F. Provides Guard Of Honour
British Official Wireless RUGBY, February 7. Members of the Royal Air Force squadron which brought down a German aeroplane off the Mld-Northum-brlan coast on Saturday acted as a guard of honour at the funeral to-day of three Nazi airmen whose bodies were washed ashore at the week-end. The three coffins, on each of which were three wreaths, were covered with swastika flags. The men were buried in a cemetery within sight of the scene of the battle.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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86FUNERAL OF NAZI AIRMEN Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21574, 9 February 1940, Page 5
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