Lifeboat from the Clouds
HALIFAX bomber returning from a raid on Germany had to come down in the North Sea. The crew took to the dinghy and fired off their distress rockets. A Coastal Cammand Hudson out on patrol saw the signal, circled the dinghy and radioed its position back to base. Another Hudson was sent' to the rescue. In the words of its pilot: "We were told that the dinghy was about sixty miles from the English coast. We flew over the dinghy and carefully tested the direction and strength of the wind. Then we released the airborne lifeboat. I hardly dared to breathe as it went down, for this was the first time it had been used, except on ‘trials.’ But the parachute blossomed out beautifully, and the boat fell in the water as neatly as could be. We all whooped with delight." The man in the boat said he’d "never been so scared in his life’ as when the great boat came sailing down towards them from the air. They were all sure it was going to hit them, it dropped so close. They scrambled in and could hardly believe their eyes when they saw it had engines. They got them going and were within ter miles of the English coast when a naval vessel picked them aup.-BBC Radio Newsreel.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 220, 10 September 1943, Page 5
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223Lifeboat from the Clouds New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 220, 10 September 1943, Page 5
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