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' TAKEN- IN EVACUATION OF ISLAND BASES ACHIEVEMENT OF AUSTRALIAN PLANES. EXTREME LOADS CARRIED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, March 15. Further interesting details are available regarding the evacuation of R.A.A.F. men from Northern Island bases. The transfer occupied two nights and was completed by 2.30 in the mornings Meanwhile the Australians were hustled, dive-bombed and machine-gunned by the Japanese, who were attempting to destroy the Australian planes. To reduce their weight to a minimum, all the men stripped to the waist before embarking. Twentythree men were packed into planes normally carrying thirteen. Because of the danger of the plane losing equilibrium during the take-off, the men gathered near the pilot’s end of the machine, except the wounded, who lay on the floor at the other end. The bomber had only 700 yards of a runway.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 4
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141SERIOUS RISKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 March 1942, Page 4
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