FLAGSHIP “BOMBED”
CHRISTMAS PROJECTILE ON QUARTERDECK. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, December 26. A correspondent aboard Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham’s flagship in the Mediterranean describes how an aeroplane flew over the ship on Christmas morning and dropped a projectile “fair and square on the quarterdeck.” But the plane belonged to the Fleet Air Arm, and instead of high explosive the pilot dropped a net stocking full of fruit and nuts. Attached was a card reading “A Merry Christmas and may you be unshadowed during the New Year.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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87FLAGSHIP “BOMBED” Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 December 1940, Page 5
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