One of the heroes of the air battle over Heligoland Bight on Monday was a l4-stone air-gunner, whose plane accounted for five Messer-schmidt, He was shot through the thigh and lost a good deal of blood on the long, bitterly cold flight home.
Both wings of the plane were in tatters and the fuselage riddled with bullet-holes. Despite the damage the machine flew fairly well, but on landing at a lonely East Coast station a tyre burst and the aircraft swung round in a circle.
Pilots and aircraftsman made a human escalator of their backs to remove the wounded gunner, who was rushed to hospital. He is now reported to be progressing well—Reuter, i
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