"HEIL CHURCHILL!”
REPLY BY BRITISH NAVAL CRAFT. TO SIGNAL, FROM GERMAN BATTERY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, August 24. “Heil Churchill!” flashed in Morse from a small ship which a German battery had challenged off the French coast, so astounded the Germans who had signalled the ship that the British crew manning a coastal craft were able to slip merrily away, dodging the searchlight beams that sought for it through the faint moonlight that had given the Germans their first glimpse of the audacious visitors. The vessel was one of the Fifth Motor-Launch Flotilla, which has earned the nickname of the “Fighting Fifth" through its iniative and audacity.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
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