Hazardous Job for Flyers
‘THE most trying condition known to airmen-wireless silence-operates for 1,000 men who for months have been carrying out one of the toughest assignments of the war. Sentries of the sea, they belong to the Royal Canadian Air Force, and police the Atlantic from the international border to the ice-fields of the Far North. Often in incredible weather conditions they spend a whole day at sea, hundreds of miles from land, No airman on convoy guard is permitted to touch a wireless key. Use of radio could give a submarine the bearings on a flotilla of ships. The airmen must be expert at the flashing of signals by lights. ° So rigid is the rule that a ’plane forced down at sea, even out of sight of the convoy, must not ask aid by wireless. The axiom is: One aircraft and its crew are of less value to Britain than a ship or a convoy of foodstuffs or armaments.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 2
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161Hazardous Job for Flyers New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 2
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