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THE, CHINA, MAHL, JULY 14, 1941..
Amazing Channel Ordeal Of R.A.F Bomber Men FIRST DIVORCE
AN EIGHT AND A HALF DAY ORDEAL UNDERGONE BY A BOMBER CREW OF FOUR DRIFTING IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL PRO- VIDED A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF BRITISH ENDURANCE.
The bomber had set out for a raid on Dusseldorf. Soon after crossing the enemy coast the port engine began to give trouble and the pilot turned back. Over the coast this engine failed and ten minutes later the starboard engine began to lose power, re- sulting in a forced landing in the channel.
Unaware they were in the midst of a minefield the crew climbed in to the dinghy.
"The trouble was," the pilot said later. "we were down 'in the drink' and none knew anything about it. The wireless operator had sent un SOS but it was not received be- cause the generator is run off one of the motors.“
Then followed a continuous or- deal of raised and dashed hopes us British aircraft passed and repass- ed without seeing the dinghy crew in spite of their waving and flash signalling.
Meagre Rations
of
The crew's rations were a few boiled sweets, a tin of food tablets, a few ounces of concen. trated chocolates, pint
อ water and a small bottle of rum. The sweets and tablets lasted about four days,
"After the second day we didn't feel hungry," the pilot said.
"What we wanted was water.
hitched the two dinghies together and sat waiting.
î
"AL last we saw
a spurt of foam which quickly got nearer and nearer and then we saw launch.
"When we
board we got on couldn't walk without help."
The four men are now sitting in their beds in an R.A.F. hospital {
British taking an enforced rest. Wireless,
1
1000
ON PITCAIRN
ISLE
Two Pitcairn island-
ers,
descendants of the mutineers from the Bounty, have made news by seeking a divorce the first in the history of the island.
Pitcairn is a solitary island in the Pacific between Australia and South America. Nine mutineers from the Bounty took posses- sion of it in 1790.
"LET'S
R.A.F. FIND WRECK
THE MARK
Thunderstorms up to
15,000 feet made naviga-
''EM"
〇〇〇
-THEY DID
.
The pilot of an R.A.F, tion difficult for. R.A.F reconnaissance 'plane in We began by allowing ourselves a pilots raiding north Ger-the Middle East, return- measured it out in the lids of tins. many on Saturday night, ing to his base, spotted a hundred German troop-
tablespoonful each twice a day and
I was official measurer.
"After three days we cut the water down to a tablespoonful a day, and on the seventh day our ration only just wet the bottom of the lid.
"We were beginning to feel very thirsty by then,
Thunderclouds were heavy with chill moisture which froze carrying 'planes stand- on wings and airscrews. Magnetic ing on the ground, wing
sent compasses to wing.
askew.
many
unces
It is not
"It looked as if the Junkers had
the job of a recon- But at Bremen there were in- tervis of reasonable weather naissance 'plane to attack, but the and by the river and other land-pilot thought the chance was too "Damn Great Mine"
marks the pilots found their way good to miss.
He called up the crew and to the targets.
asked heavy
their Dolnion, Some
"Let's exceptionally "We made a fishing line by un-bombs were dropped as well as
wreck 'em, sir,' was what they ravelling a piece of curd from the
others of norinal weight said. dinghy and tying the pieces to and in various parts of the indus- gether and made a spinner from trial area crews could see fires
piece of tin, We could see plenty of fish but none would bite.
which they had started.
There was as much opposition "One day, when we were try from ground defences as from the ing to ace who could hold his weather but reports show the head under water longest, the navigator lifted his head out of Crews overcame everything with
equal persistance. the water. 'There's a damn great mine down here,' he said. had been hit in about 20 places One pilot reported his aircraft "We began to realise then why while he was making several we hadn't seen any ships. We made up our piinds to try to pad-runs over the target to make sure die towards where we thought the of his alm.--British Wireless. coast was.
"We started at 11 o'clock one morning and kept it up till eight that night, working two at a time in half hour shifts,
"Next day we had to go. at it from eight in the morning till eight in the evening.
"We tried to keep it up through the night as well but our strength was going. I found I couldn't even stand up, in the dinghy,
"We had to keep pumping the dinghy up with a hand pump and we were so weak we couldn't do more than a dozen strokes at a time.
"On the eighth evening a Hamp- den escorted by two Hurricanes appeared from the west at 2,000 feet and
almost turned north above us. We all waved but they did not see us.
just landed, for groups of soldiers were on the landing grounds," the pilot said afterwards. "We dived down to 50ft, and flashed along the line of aircraft, giving them all we had. One Durst into flaines and smoke poured from others.
STARTLED TO,
THE SOLDIERS WERE TOO RAISE THEIR UP THEY CLOSED RIFLES.
AND TOP- LIKE PENKNIVES FLED TO THE GROUND."
RESCUED ITALIANS CHEER R.A.F.
FROM THE DECK of one of Mussolini's hospital ships Italian survivors of the Battle of Matapan cheered the pilot of a big R.A.F. flying-boat which had saved their lives.
It was a couple of days after the British Navy's great triumph. Admiral Cunningham, after wire- lessing the position to the Italian Commander-in- Chief, had left the Mediterranean temporarily clear for the Italians to pick up survivors from their three cruisers and three destroyers that were sunk. The British flying-boat went weakly.. for an oar which was ing water and our tongues were to reconnoître the scene of the supporting them... beginning to swell and crack. We battle..
Altogether at least 40 of those rinsed out our mouths with sea When he arrived the pilot drifting bodies were alive, and water but didn't drink any, gasped with surprise. The sea the pilot sent a radio, message to
"At 8.20 a.m. of the ninth day was covered with oil over a vast an Italian hospital
Out Of Water
"By now. we were out of drink-
ship, which
ja Hampden came out of the sun area as big, as an English coun- was then on. her way home, gly-
at about 2,000. feet and passed us ty," he described iti›
ing this information.
a quarter of a mile away. We In it flonted bodies, splintered A few hours later the flying- waved and flashed our-mirrors. woodwork, crates of oranges,, an bont_went out again, and saw, that The Hampden did a half indescribable jumble of wreckage. the hospital ship had returned - turn, banked and put its nose For mile, after mile the sea was and the 40 men were being down, and then we reailsed wo covered with debris.
rescued.
had been soon.
"We joined hands and sang 'Auld Lang Syne! ·
"The Hampden signalled by Aldis lamp: Help coming? Then it dropped its dinghy water.
"We paddled over
the
The pilot flew lower, and found that the Italian.hospital ships had not done their work properly..
Still Alive
were still men alive
the There water bottle from the dinghy and here, and there. อ น น...
I put in pɔivys He saw two, Itailans fighting
:
The pilot flew down until his wing tips were not more than 10ft, from the vessel's side.
Exhausted sailors clad in over- alls and blankets crowded to the rails to cheer the enemy who had saved their lives - after their allies bombers had done their best to sink the British ships that were trying to rescue them.
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