REGENT THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 6

REGENT THEATRE

“THE PANTHER’S CLAW.” The final screening will take place tonight of “The Panther’s Claw” and “South of Panama.” “ONE OF OUR AIRCRAFT IS MISSING.” There will be screened at the Regent Theatre tomorrow and Monday night "One of our Aircraft is Missing, alter a sensational record breaking season in Metropolitan theatres, in ihe darkness of a Sunday morning, somewhere in. England. a Wellington bomber with tne identification mark "B for Bertie” camb Hying home across the North Sea With not one of the crew on board. Tne stick moved ana jerked to. the tug of tne ailerons. Bui no pilot held me controls. At the navigator’s table, his maps and insU’umems were lying just as he had fell them. No second pilot stood on waten, and no radio operator listened at me ’phones. In the nose and tail turreu of the aircraft the guns, fully loaded, pointed blindly toward sthe sky. As the aircraft swept in over the coast it was barely 200 feet up and rapidly losing height. An electric-power pylon stood directly in its path. A blinding flash lit the scene as the aircraft struct the high-tension wires. Tne great steel tower, carrying burning oil and wreckage with it, came crashing to the ground. There was a series of deafening explosions, and a bright pillar of flame shot up, suddenly illuminating the dark countryside. “B lor Bertie” had returned. But what had happened to .the crew? Their amazing adventure is told in a remarkable picture.