ITALIAN AIRCRAFT
ARRIVAL IN MIDDLE EAST. AFTER ESCAPE FROM GERMANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 13. Two Italian aircraft, the first to escape from the Germans, have arrived in the Middle East, states a Cairo cor-' respondent. Both, were complete with crews of six. They are three-engined planes and almost brand new. The Italian crew of the first plane posed laughingly for th'eir photographs on a each. The Italian captain of one plane said relations between the Italian air crews and ground staffs and their German counterparts had been unbearable for a long time. There was open friction, often leading to blows, and orders from senior officers vzould be disobeyed by a junior of the opposite nationality. “We were sick of it all,” he added.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 September 1943, Page 3
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