Reading Eagle (October 1, 1940)
London, Oct. 1 (AP) –
United States Ambassador Joseph Kennedy watched a German raiding plane crash near his country estate last evening after it came so close he could “almost count the buttons on the pilot’s coat,” he said today.
The Messerschmitt fighter plane, crippled by anti-aircraft fire, struck in Windsor Great Park, which adjoins his estate.
I thought for a time that it was going to land on my home.
The ambassador said he believed the pilot was captured by soldiers, but added he “didn’t know for sure.”