BRITISH LEADERS
SURVEY OF FORWARD AREA IN LIBYA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 24. Lieut.-General Ritchie and Air Vice-: Marshal Conyngham visited one of the most forward areas in the Libyan campaign. They arrived and left togethei’ in a Blenheim bomber escorted by fighters of the S.A.A.F. Air ViceMarshal Conyngham was flown by a flying officer and himself acted as observer. General Ritchie sat behind the rear-gunner. General Ritchie and the air officer commanding were not the only visitors to this advanced landing ground. As they were approaching their aircraft to take off, a solitary Junkers 88 dived from heavy cloud covei’ to send a stick of bombs hurtling to the earth. The nearest bomb fell only a hundred yards from the waiting plane, but though fragments fell all around no damage or casualties resulted.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 December 1941, Page 3
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