FINE RECORD
OF COASTAL COMMAND SQUADRONS TWO THOUSAND HOURS OF ARDUOUS SERVICE. WITHOUT A SINGLE MISHAP. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, July 4. A Coastal Command squadron has the enviable record of two thousand hours of operational flying in three months without a single accident. Much of this flying was done by night, in adverse weather, intense cold and snowstorms, early this year. During these months the aircraft' of the squadron provided escort protection for many convoys and intercepted several enemy aircraft attempting to bomb British and Allied vesesls in the Atlantic.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 5
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96FINE RECORD Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 5
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