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"LATE ARRIVALS" CLUB
A club, exclusive as it is unique,
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MASSED GUNS ON COAST AWAIT INVADERS
(From L. MARSLAND GANDER)
has just been formed in the West- BRITAIN'S COASTAL batteries, strengthened It is called "The Late and improved immeasurably since Dunkirk days, Arrivals Club" and the members are preparing a devastating welcome for invaders. are a small body of fliers I have just seen a night shoot by six-inch guns that
who
have been shot down in action and have,
and are the first line of our island defence. through initiative courage,
the managed to elude enemy and gain the safety of their own lines.
While bombers bound for Germany throbbed overhead, shore searchlights picked up moving tar- The members include a D.S.O.get representing the bows and stern of an enemy and many D.F.C.'s. There are one transport. The first gun fired; then, still dazzled or two Free Frenchmen eligible, and deafened in the battery observation post, I saw
the shell land amidships on the target.
and at least three South Africans.
Some members are doubly eligi- ble having thwarted the enemy The on more than one occasion. "Late Arrivals" sport a badge de- signed in blue and white enamel and consisting of a winged flying boot signifying that most mem- bers of the club have walked back from behind the enemy Jines.
There was a chorus of "Good, seaside villas, among woods and shot!" from a little group of Royal in many unsuspected places. Artillery officers, Afterwards the Meanwhile under ingenious cam- guns spoke seven times more and ouflage that gives the green and secured three direct hits at 9,500 brown landscape new contours the work of building more emplace- goes on. So "Romeo,"
yards.
Even in these days of airbornements
menace, the guns are massing "Juliet," "Ickle Gel," and many along the coast in the expectation another steel glant nicknamed by that one of the enemy's main the gunners, goes into position to efforts will be over the sea. Ilie in wait.
A naval officer who cooperates of a special coast regiment of the with the Royal Artillery in this Royal Artillery which guards a section of the coast discussed with stretch of shore. Behind the mon-me the problems of invasion and ster coastal guns are lines of field defence. artillery.
"Romeo" and "Juliet"
BELGIANS “SEE” OUR have spent some days as the guest
ARMY
I'hotographs of the British Army are being reproduced in secret newspapers circulating in Belgium and are heartening the population, says
Free Bel- gian News Agency.
the
These coastal batteries lurk in the neglected gardens of empty
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The Nazia would need a week of fine weather, ba said. Despite the best efforts of tho Navy, wo muct expect the Germans to land considerabic forcea, gardless of loss.
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This naval officer believes that in these islands air action and landing of airborne troops could result, not produce any decisive and that the Germans must still rely on sea transport for the heavy would need. equipment they Nevertheless, air possibilities have not been neglected.
Life by the English seaside in 1941, 1s 1 strange experience. Where the holidaymakers used to off duty sunbathe, the gunners form exclusive bathing parties on the mined and wired beaches. The regimental concert party, with a surprising show of talent, takes the place of the professionals.
HOW AN "AUSSIE" JOINED THE R.A.F.
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Among the pilots operating with a Fighter Squadron of Hurricanes named after the State of Hydera- bad is an Australian.
Born in a small town in West- lern Australla he worked as a bank clerk in Melbourne for several years. From childhood he was in-
tensely interested in flying, and for several years he piloted civil aircraft in Australia. When his bank refused to give him a day's leave to see the finish of the Mildenhall-Melbourne air ruce in 1934, he decided literally to "hand in his cheque."
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