Should A Fighter Pilot Marry During Wartime?

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956.

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trols and for dropped 1 medal and headed towards Teemme.

Nine Spitfires left, and

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The Focke-Wuits were ready fight your way out

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lencian was very clever. a: nost show his hand wat we turned sver {'rn Mars Pe

Focke-Wuits wanted to Nigel. It Di .en the battle ground would be of our choos- TAK

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shallow angle. I parsed a Ex to Tangmere and flew low over the rea. The heaving waters had already closed in and there

sign of wreckage WAT ley turn d

dinghy

The seven of us new Bach war defides would be

back to Tangmere together and ding the cre They would have not speak

ngalia until we pay a lot of tention to the M Geight. And in Inte post the (44.4 palet tal hown 10k disenarriak eg fot 1lves

ype of combat.

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unted my Spitfires. Pour

in my section Alan Laurie, nuw Butt commander, well co en la pe it wide with three. Seven

Where were the the

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later days

nother We Just Polish pitol, Skuinski, when we tangled with 50 or 60 190s just misica the French coast,

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"Get down on the drek

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in the wins. lost three of his New Zealand pilots, one B whom was his younger brother

“I'll have to get my log books for the hours," { answered cautiously. "What's the formy?"

Just the usual routing "Oh. stuff," he explained, but he was a shade to nonchalant for my king. "Anyway, never mind abent hours, When did you fust have a rest from ups?"

“dum hud ung" { let "We've ut eor? down here from the north Scotland. Wonderful shooting up there. Good Salmon Jurt the sort of rest you

100. want."

་་། fer," he replied and wondered whether he did.

there tomorrow. And let me know if i can help in any way." I had arranged for Poula 10 in Chi- spend the week-end

cheater. Now It would have to be put off. 1 telephoned her in Norwich, and a sleepy eventually came to the phone. Security regulations prevented me from telling her, over

pen line, where I was going.

Paula

GOODBYE...

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I'M leaving here, durling." I explained. “But I'm not go-

for and act

crossing the

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kg Water,"

"When

It, in fact, spoken the truth. 1 was not really tired, and I know that I should not take a test at that stage.

A low hours later I answered ખ telephone

and again, had to walt until the line was to the group com- frumferred

mankter, All Vice-Marshal Saunders:-

What's all

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My squadam had now lot itenssl fo lve pilots in almox us mary wo bei re days, and we cald Bot rotue I could operations for much longer at fer a bunch of 1980s belund the such a high casualty rate. Our Two Spliffies, and 1 tuned my wing leader left us, and pending Cutleryn with your squadron?" sertima Towards them und the

the appointment of shouted Warning over the FAGIO

SCREAMS

JE wie tựu late, fur when we

sucess-

Wstraghtened it of the turn unlles away, my auction was to

"Hello, Johnnie this hear about

tá rest at

cometimes led

"Wel, it was far better than Tungmere

WINA

Our pene- the usual rest, sa," I countered rallons into France were con- defensively. siderably less than those of two years ugo, And when the "I hope it was," he answered

I'm controller called up and told me quietly. "because giving of enemy goggles five and ten you a wing of your own, The Canadian Whe at Kenley. the Focke-Wills were breaking avoid combat unless sun and They've got the new Sphe from the attacks and height would give us the perfect 1Ks. Put your stripe up and get 147 two SpäthrOS were got bounce. down The leading Spitfire was Landly br It poured black it bigast to burn, We could the nothing except war and hope that a parachute would are out.

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Such was the superio ly of the Fetke. Wult over eur Sp.:- Bre: In the spring of 1943

One day I was culled to the

Instead telephone and found in was 3

Í Jing These lew precious staff cffier from 1 Group

50.1% in

bale out the inan headquarters on the other end,

Inside suddenly panicked and

8. camer

sver the radio. We bal LEPVET heard

"Morning, John-op. Could 1

this sort of please have your total opera- tknul hours and when yati lusl had a resi?"

tha belure, and for a few aheeked moments we listened to

his dreadful mouthings,

I had a sudden fear of being I came out of my stupor and posted to a trolling unil, for I Rickett <

Itly transmitter hat in fact completed more than switch 10 Jor his screams. The official quota of operational watele i the Spitfire heure without E rest

into the cold sea ut 祥 quadron life.

We amack

from

Suez Won't Topple The Tories

London

THE communter witting

T

By YORKE HENDERSON

under the flood of angry tears

phed over Bussia's rope of Hun-

ry.

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opposite me in the suburban train Was talking about

the crisis we've bewa having Half the front page of the mus circulation daily paper he was currying was de voted lo the unsettled ves have made it plain that, comfort to the hope that wher Even stalwarts who accom- domestic affairs of Miss ever the Sutz adar, they have the ful economic consequences plished the political acrobatics Diana Dory, a

no intentiou of "going to the of the

closure of the Suez demanded by gigantic switch- country," film star.

Canal strike home at the Bri- abouts, like the Stalin-Iitler

the nixt general election, con- things like foreign policy. Even Never at any time + real fronted by

kuve to an appalling fangle domestic affairs

hit political force, the Communist left by his Conservative pre- fairly hard and direcky at

the Party of Great Britain decessors i lice,

Individua Dylton before he groggily trying to stem the flow thinks about switching a long- of digusted renunciations and Fact in tant Lire Is DO

plending political alegiance, resignations by prominent Com- due for over general election three years. And the Conserva-

The Socialist, may ding for munists at all levels.

curvaceous

Ale rover, the signs are that Hish people they will turn in pact of 1939, are quitting the "The crisis we've been Prime Minister Eden's Con- disgust from the Conservatives, party, slckened by its lekapiltle having" am Miss Dors back servatives have more popular Even if Britons as a whole did support of the Kremin line on

blame Sir Anthony Eden for the Hungary. it was support than the Socialists give closure of the Canal,

you could wish of popular LABOUR HOPES

on the front page:

them credit for.

ས }1lt!rat 3 summing up as

British renction tu the

troubled International scene.

For instance,

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this

Socialist day-dream would not THE PINCH

necessarily be realised.

.

And there are no signs that

The party has reacted with a the majority of them do blame "rally to the flag" appeal to the

The answer is, of course, that published by the Liberal News it has been demonstrated to signally successful..

And there was little comfort

a Gallup poli, Sir Anthony for thir. After all, comrader. It Is Bitely to be the British are not very good at Chroniee which

2132 roundly Rem that the majority of the maintaining a crids atmosphere, attacked Eden over Sutz, show- blocks ships were sunk in the Despite the howls of the And with no actual sliceting ed a majority of the people in Cane by Egyptians after the capitalist Press," runs the state- going on in the Middle East, support of the Prine Minister. coase-fire..

ment, the Communist Party, They can zee thead-and the

the truth about her, plans counter-revolutionary elements whom the British millionaire inside

outside Hungry.

Fross lords support, and who tried to take advantage of the jusb demands of the Hungarian people to restore Fascianin Hungary."

chances are that they are right for the Socialisis in the results is my tipudon't look for any and activities of the Fascist and

So, for what it is worth, hero another seemingly Intermin- oble round of conferences and a.by-tection at/Chester. The big switch of political power in Conservative majority dropped. Britain as a result of the Suez salso did the vote as a whole, affair.

get-togethers to clear up the Suez trouble,

NO ELECTION

and the increase in the Labour

vote was in no way comparable

with the drop in the Conserv RED TWILIGHT: live majority, thereby indicating -

·· Gransfer At the political level, how no wholesale ever, Suez remains very mach political alegiance,

To be sung to the air of "This just this sort, of pro-

Red Flor

The people's flag is turning

not so red!

You migh

on lasue, ond the Socialists The politicot pundila saw this. clearly cherish the belief that by-election as a lot of tile It provides diem wilh, 'a wons, country's feeling over Lie Gòve- derful, abonce... of frotuning "to" emmønt's, hynching" of the Balf pawari | Cartoonist / David Low, erlas, Ai-curious): supporttimi, went do Lar hs to depler nery, since they ought to know" by Labarito Aneurin bovenway this time at Bellan election Britain's Foreign Sexelary after are nekber won nor lopton Corrim

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mounéement" which I has turned

the stomachs of somRAY; «rat», while Rods, RURAL

Where the Communists are imoot likely to feel the pinch. Is tis, in the acade unionaçi thoja", only

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she asked.

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you

"Tomorrow. I'm

leaving?"

just saying Goodbye to the boys. Don't you hear the noise?**

**Yes. they're singing that dreadful song again! What about our week-end?" asked the sleepy volee from Norwich,

"We'll have to scrubs it. I'm ofrald. You see, darling, they're promoting me to wing cum- mander and 1 have to be at the new place tomorrow."

Suddenly she was no longer sleepy. but all Womвn and incomprehensible:

"Why can't they promote you next week7”

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