A Nazi aviator today owed his life to a Jewish officer of the British army. This morning Lieutenant M.E. Jacobs dived from a breakwater at Folkestone and swam 300 yards to rescue the pilot of a Messerschmitt plane which had been shot down by a British Spitfire.
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