KITE BALLOONS BRING DOWN CONVOY RAIDERS.—Special kite balloons for merchant ship protection have rendered enemy divebombing and mast-high attacks a hazardous undertaking. Transferring a camouflaged balloon from a Royal Naval Kite Balloon Section depot-barge to a naval lighter, which will take it out to one of the convoy merchant ships in the background.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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53KITE BALLOONS BRING DOWN CONVOY RAIDERS.—Special kite balloons for merchant ship protection have rendered enemy divebombing and mast-high attacks a hazardous undertaking. Transferring a camouflaged balloon from a Royal Naval Kite Balloon Section depot-barge to a naval lighter, which will take it out to one of the convoy merchant ships in the background. Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1942, Page 4
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