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Description: | British officer served as observer with 6 Sqdn RAF on Western Front, 1918
REEL 1: Recollections of being shot down and captured at Le Cateau, France, 23/Oct/1918: briefing; weather conditions over Le Cateau; description of surprise attack by German Fokker aircraft flying out of sun; question of strength of Fokker's construction; memory of Fokker pilot's goggles; damage to aircraft and death of pilot; problem of engine failing; memory of praying; loss of consciousness and regaining control of aircraft; description of aircraft crashing into trees;captured by Germans and taken to nearby church. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | BBC Sound Archives | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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