PLANE WRECKAGE
VALUABLE WASTE METAL Hundreds of Nazi ’planes shot down over Britain are piled up in masses of tangled metal in a large South Country field which is the temporary tomb of Hcinkels. Dorniers. Junkers, and Messerschmitts before the thousands ol pounds' worth of valuaoie metal is taken from them to be used again:-! the foe •j other forms for our own machines and armaments. There are guns and their mountings. instruments, wire, and other metal parts of the ’planes. They are S all separated from the wreckage after R.A.F. experts have carefully examined the machines to see iL the Germans are developing any new ideas in construction or equip-
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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111PLANE WRECKAGE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21245, 16 October 1940, Page 9
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