The owner of 9 cottage at Barby, Yorkshire, saw the Heinkel crash, saw the German machine stele 4 tr00," he declared. "I collected my Valuables, as 1 expected the machine to blow up my house with it All the time British fighters were circling low overhead, watching what was taking place."
Another member, of the cottage household stated: "I saw the Ger-mang trying to. pull an injured air. man out. He was the machine-gun ner in the nose of the turret. helped to yet him out, Later the Ger mans. returned to the machine and ddrouged out a dead airman. The other two occupants were not badly hurt. The two airmen were taken to a nearby farm. 'They were put on a mattress in front of a fire until the arrival of an ambulance. "One of the airmen could speak English slightly. He asked a farmer for a cigarette. He pressed the farmer's hand, and thank= him and his wife for' their kind-
It is authoritatively stated that the Heinkel shot down in Yorkshire was set_on fire by the crew.
During the morning, German planes were seen at points along the coast from Norfolk to Northumber-Jand—Reuter.
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