AMERICAN FIGHTERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1941, Page 5

AMERICAN FIGHTERS

FIRST SUCCESS AGAINST NAZI BOMBER JUNKERS BROUGHT DOWN IN BOG. I MEMBERS OF CREW TAKEN | PRISONER. (P.ritish otlici.il Wirrlo’ ' RUGBY. January 11 ] Tlie Air Ministry news service states! i that Germany has lost her first* bomber to American tighter aircraft; flown by British pilots . Flying Grumman single-seater tight-j I er>. naval pilots shot down a Junkers Mill bomber, all four German <’veupants' being captured Three of these turcrall were an] patrol when weather tiece-ssitated their] recall to the b;..-e One had actual!) , landed when the pH"*, caught sight of] a Junkers IT. IL- promptly teak ufl] again and climbing back to the clouds rejoined his two companions, just as ] uno of them opened fire <>n the raider.] , Smoke at once >■■))■• !• ■p. , J the Junkers,] and when the leader jomed the fight \ the German m,ic!:me b<-.-.,n to lose] ■ height -i« Hie pilot ! :u*< nlly search- | ed for a landing place. Crippled, the! ■ British aircraft kept < lose watch lu make sure .' wa- not .< ruse m dodge m the m;.-! The Jmiker eventually| < I . l -hvd m leg | The light h.id been watched by ai retired naval captain and his son. | They l eached the wreckage as one I f the ,11 was .it'emptmg to set) lire {■> ;iie machine Tlie r.ipt.m: i< ivered him with a shot gun and his] Y-m-med the f ur men mid look '.hem j.aiS 'ner One had been slightly