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—* TAKEN BACK TO BRITAIN BY MOSQUITO. AFTER CRASH INTO RADIO AERIAL IN HOLLAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, April 16. One of the Fighter Command Mosquitoes which last night flew deep into enemy and occupied territory in search of railway and road targets, patrolled Holland for two and a half hours with 300 feet of copper cable wrapped around a wing and the fuselage as a result of a crash into some wireless station cables. All the British aircraft engaged in this extended night offensive, in the course of which heavy damage was done to enemy communications, returned safely.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1943, Page 3
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105COPPER CABLE Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1943, Page 3
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