Advice From One Who Knows
ERE is some advice from a returned New Zealand Ser-geant-Pilot about air raids: "Get into a trench or shelter. If there’s no trench or shelter in sight, lie down flat, the lower the better. Whatever you do, don’t stand around in streets. "Most of the Japanese antipersonnel bombs I saw used in Singapore detonated immediately they struck the ground. They made hardly any crater, but hurled splinters and fragments over a wide radius. They were certainly "grass cutters.’ I even saw the surface of bitumen roads shaved clean by this type of bomb. "There is no doubt about it, a trench is the safest place. I’ve seen our chaps emerge without a scratch after what appeared to be a direct hit."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 147, 17 April 1942, Page 7
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126Advice From One Who Knows New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 147, 17 April 1942, Page 7
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