Baling out with a shot up parachute

29th August 1940: The fate of two Hurricane pilots who are shot down at the same time over southern England

The twin-engined bombers of RAF Bomber Command struggled with the 1,200 mile trip to Berlin and back. One Handley Page Hampden bomber ran out of fuel on the return leg and ditched off the coast after nearly nine hours in the air. Its crew were rescued on this occasion. Others were not so lucky- six aircraft were believed lost to fuel starvation on the f…