Catapulted Aircraft Beat Axis Convoy Raiders
British Official Wireless.
Rec. 8.15 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 29. It is just a year since the idea pul forward by Mr. Winston Churchill himself of catapulting aircraft from merchant ships in order to protect them from long-distance enemy bombers was put into practice. Prior to this heavy toll of merchant ships had been taken by such raiders but since the introduction of catapulting aircraft from merchant ships not a single merchant ship has been lost from long-range bombei" attack on normal ocean routes when ships equipped with catapult aircraft have been in the cofivoy.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 August 1942, Page 3
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