Wings Over The Sea
| "PEOPLE don’t realise that the Fiji flying-boat patrols are doing a really : | vital job, they do it so quietly," Bryan |O’Brien said. He was talking to The Listener about a documentary, Pacific | Patrol, which he has written on the work of Number 5 Squadron, R.N.Z.A.F.,
which is based on Lauthala Bay, Fiji. "The Sunderland fly--ing-boats of Number 5 Squadron are on |; patrol all the time on our northern defence perimeter. There was | talk a while ago that | these ‘planes were too slow, that they | go be replaced, | ut outsiders fail to
realise that it’s precisely because they can move so slowly that they are invaluable in submarine patroi and rescue work." Pacific Patrol is a study of day-by-day life at pleasant Lauthala Bay, some two miles from Suva. Some 400 men and women of the Air Force and their families live there. Bryan O’Brien recorded part of a concert, but life is not always so pleasant. He was able to record an actual "Dumbo" or rescue operation from the receiving of a signal from a patrolling aircraft to the prompt get-away of a high-speed" launch, Pacific Patrol ‘vill be heard in the Main National Programme at 9.39 am. on Sunday, April 3.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 8
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206Wings Over The Sea New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 817, 25 March 1955, Page 8
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