NIGHT FIGHTERS
NORWEGIAN SQUADRON IN BRITAIN EQUIPPED WITH HURRICANES. STORY OF PERILOUS ESCAPE FROM HOMELAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, August 21. Equipped with Hurricanes, a night fighter squadron of the Norwegian Air Force will shortly be operating with the R.A.F. Some of the pilots belonged to a party of sixteen airmen who escaped in a fishing boat. They steered for the Shetlands, but missed their mark and were found by a de-
stroyer well out in the Atlantic. One pilot actually did cross the Atlantic in a small boat. He was with three other Norwegians and it took them forty days to reach Newfoundland, where they had some difficulty at first 1 in persuading the Newfoundlanders that they were not spies. Many of the aircraftmen in the squadron were sailors in Norway before the German invasion.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 5
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