“Another strange phenomenon Ivc > seen up in the north is St. Elmo fire. I think a discharge of static electricity—the aerials and the rigging and things like that glow as if they were red hot. You can hold up your fingers and get little blue flames jumping off the end of them, and if you’re wearing knitted gloves little blue flames come off the end of the wool. Yet you don’t feel any heat at all.” —Lieutenant W. Jackson, R.A.N.V.R., interviewed at the 8.8. C. overseas microphone.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 3
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