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Ok thanks Ross! (n/t)
Posted by Mike on Sun Jun 30, 2002 07:33:27 AM
In reply top Re: Bf 109E-4 ditched off Folkstone posted by Ross McNeill on Sun Jun 30, 2002 06:13:45 AM
: Hi Mike,
:
: The position was subject to clearance by wire sweep in the
: 1950s.
:
: The files of the Royal National Lifeboat Institute record
: the following details on the event:
:
: FOLKESTONE, KENT.
: Shortly before ten in the morning of the 23rd September, 1
: 940, a German aeroplane came down in the sea about half-wa
: y between the pier of the Southern Railway and Copt Point.
: Two men in a fishing boat, which was near, went at once t
: o the rescue, and an army officer and a lance-corporal jum
: ped into the sea from Folkestone pier, and swam to the aer
: oplane. The lance-corporal reached it first, found that th
: e pilot was badly wounded, and helped him into the fishing
: boat which had now arrived. - Rewards, 15s. and 2s. 6d. f
: or fuel used.
:
: Regards
: Ross