RAID OVER KIEL
GISBORNE PARTICIPANT WIRELESS OPERATOR MR. J. LANGRIDGE News has been received that a Gisborne boy. Mr. J. Langridge, who is attached to the Royal Air Force in England as a wireless operator, took part in the raid made by British planes on the Kiel Canal at the opening of the war with Germany.
In a letter to his parents, Mr and Mrs. A. F. Langridge, 15(1 Clifford street, Mr Jack Langridge writes in high spirits of tne DUsy time he had experienced since the commencement of the war. “'We are having a lot of flying.” writes Mr. Langridge In telling of the Kiel raid he said that his squadron i n c u r r e d no casualties. The only damage suffered by the planes were a few holes, the work of the “Archies.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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138RAID OVER KIEL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20072, 19 October 1939, Page 7
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