(Continued from page 9) height. Crowds stood in the streets watching as the bomber come swooping down. The crew could be seen through the cabin windows."
Said another eye-witness; "I was on the pier when the German plane came within a few feet of the water level and attacked the trawler. I saw flashes as the aircraft peppered the vessel with bullets. As it passed the trawler, it brought its rear guns into play and Wen made off in the direction of a lightship.—It circled the lightship twice, and then returned to the trawler and attacked it again."
An Air Ministry announcement states that "an enemy aircraft was shot down off the Tyne today." This it adds, "was the third successful in-perception of enemy aircraft off the east coast today."
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