A LANE OF FLARES
ENEMY'S NEW DEVICE
Rec. 11.15 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 1. "The gunners were reporting enemy fighters, some with lights on and some without, from the moment we crossed the enemy coast," a wing commander reported after the Berlin raid. It wasn't until we got to the capital that I personally saw any of the new flares the Germans are using. About a dozen were dropped at a time. They fell slowly from a -good height and burnt with a brilliant white slight. They were coming down in parallel lines, and I saw at least six. My navigator at one time counted about 40 going down even more slowly than a leaf falls through the sky. The Germans were obviously using them to illuminate us as we' went in, and the whole aim of the enemy aircraft in dropping them was to form a lane oi flares through which we would have to pass on our way to the target.' — 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 5
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164A LANE OF FLARES Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 55, 2 September 1943, Page 5
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