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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 16, 1941, -

MUTT AND JEFF

BOY, THESE CANVAS ARMY UNIFORMS.

BARE HARD TO

CANVAS? THEY'RE NOT

CANVAS!

THEY RE NOT? WELL,THEN WHAT ARE THEY?

THEY RE-ER- CHINTZ!

WASH!

CHINTZ? YOURE DAFFY! I KNOW. WHAT CHINTZ

IS!

Library, Supacno Count

OH, YEAH! YOU'RE SO SMART WHAT'S CHINTZ

Page

By: BUD FISHER ·

CHINTZ IS WHAT FAT PEOPLE HAVE DOUBLE OF!

PILOT'S THRILLING STORY OF ESCAPE FROM FROM

THE

A REMARKABLE STORY WAS TOLD YES- TERDAY OF HOW AN R.A.F. SQUADRON

TRAPPED LEADER,

UNDERNEATH WATER IN A BOMBER WHICH HAD COME DOWN IN THE SEA, FOUGHT HIS WAY OUT AND THEN, HALF DROWNING, WAS SUP- PORTED IN THE SEA BY HIS FRONT GUN- NER UNTIL HE COULD REACH A DINGHY.

Near Ostend, a shell from a heavy A.A. gun burst directly under the bomber. Down went the aircraft almost out of control, her engines racing. At about 4,000 feet, the pilot managed to steady the engines and flatten out.

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Bomb doors and landing wheels, board, the aircraft began to drop feet a minute. It had dropped down and the netrol' at about 500

water ut about 90 and oil pipes appeared to be dum- touched the aged.

There was nothing do ex- miles an hour, bounced, then came down on the port wing. The fuse- cept turn for home.

Both engines were missing bad-lage was almost broken in two.

Four of the crew managed to ly and after a time, though every-

front thing movable was thrown over- get out but the pilot and

PLANE

gunner were trapped.

The pilot's cockpit, with

the pilot still in it, was about ten feet under the sea but the front gun- the ner was above the level of water.

The bomber had caught fire and now with tail and part of the fuselage out of water was sinking| vertically.

Pilot's Story

From the navigator's table to the rear turret there was a mass of flames.

"The first thing I realised was I was down beside the bombsight in the nose of the aircraft" said the pilot. "I could feel the bombsight: under the water. I struggled back to my seat and tried to get} out through the pilots escape hatch but couldn't because half of it had jammed and with full kit on I couldn't get out through the other half.

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"At times it was a great rellef not to hold my breath, I was all but drowned when I saw a mo. That bright light above

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1 at must have been the fire. once made for the light, clut. ching everything i could. I felt various things

go past wireless set, oxygen bottles, main spar--and I knew I poing up fuselage so I tried for the astrohatch.

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"But it was locked and I was too weak to open it. Then I saw more lights further up. I didn't know how long I was under water but when I got near the second. light the I found there was a break in fuselage. The front gunner just getting through it.

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"I was in a pretty bad way but still conscious. As I got my head above water I saw the dinghy and with the help of the gunner start- ed swimming towards it. The rest of the crew were already in the to- dinghy and began paddling wards us.

"While we were in the water, the gunner tried. to blow up, mỳ

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but couldn't manage it.

"I remember telling him to go and leave me but he wouldn't. He just said. "We'll make it' or some- thing like that. I spent all night getting salt water out of my lungs. It was a night of complete hell." For several days, the crew drift

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