MALTESE GROUND CREWS
AMERICAN PILOT’S TRIBUTE. An American pilot, from Los Angeles, serving with the R.A.F., arrived in Cairo the other day,, after seven months in Malta. In a talk for a 8.8. C. Newsreel, he said: “ . . . the guys I take my hat off to are the ground crews. They work like dogs from morning to night, seeing that each particular ship is in tip-top shape. You come down in the middle of a long raid, and they would be waiting, (with oil-cans, batteries, ammunition, and gasolene. They’d be one in. every machine, and they would be there aftet dark, filling in the bullet holes. . . . I’ve seen a crew of Maltese refuellers fill up ship after ship during a terrific bombing raid on the aerodrome. They don’t seem to .pay any attention to the bombs; they didn’t even wear a tin hat.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 6
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142MALTESE GROUND CREWS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 August 1942, Page 6
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