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DONALD DUCK

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November 1, 1940.

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AIRMEN

AS TARGETS

By JOHN CASHEL

IXPENCE a day to be

SIXP

bombed! Don't laugh.

That really happens.

I have just been talking to Three Men in a Yellow Bont who offer themselves as hu- man targets though, their lives being precious, a sub- stantial Alab of protective armour is placed between them and the rain of high ex- plosive.

They are one of many tries of brave men of Britain's Royal Air Force who spect over the coastal ranges round our shores in armoured target motor-boats .80 that Our bombers can learn and per- fect their aim by practising the real thing,

The aimers drop live explo- sives weighing about eleven pounds each, large enough when they find their elusive mark to dent the three and a half tons of armour protect- ing-the-little-target-boat-and- to give the three men inside it an unpleasant shake-up.

They wear crash-helmets and car-protectors, and the the wheel-

armour

covers

house, engine-room and hull of their craft. The rest is packed with a buoyant material to prevent it from being sunk by

good hit.

THE boat is painted yellow

-the R.A.F.'s colour to distinguish training aircraft and this colouring also helps to show up the tiny target bonts to the bombers as they will have nothing so small to attack in the shape of enemy objectives.

The target boats flash along at 20 knots, turning, zig-zagging, dodging the prac- tice bombers. A hit some- times capsizes them. The three men, good swimmers and specially trained for the job, dive clear, right their boat if it does not automatic- ally right itself, climber in again, ready for the next fall of bomba.

Nothing extraordinary for them. Just routine heroes!

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THEIR captain is a corporal curring 78. 9d. a day. The other two are leading air- craftmen, pay 5s. 3d., or possi bly one is an aircraftman, pay 48. 6d.

"

Come to a typical station. Besides the target boats you see the better-known high- speed launches. With a crew of ten under a master mar- race iner, they

out at 40 knots, rescuing Nazi airmen shot or forced down at sea, and-although this need is less oflen-our Own вен- wrecked airmen.

They are assisted by their smaller sisters, the 13-knot pinnaces, with a crew of five. These are the Fleet's maids- of-all-work.

It is

Look at that one. laying a flare-path so that a flying-boat can see to take off and another to come down. A second pinnace dushes across the harbour carrying stores of water. A third is off to re- cover torpedoes red by air- the craft at practice over bombing range.

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fuellor is quickly at their side, doing the job.

Something else is there, too. A flat-bottomed steel shell, known as a bomb-scow. The flying-bont, if the hunting has been good, needs, a fresh load of bombs as well as petrol.

are

They want the bombs, the bomb-scow has them. They No soon hoist aboard. waiting. The flying-boat is not allowed for one moment to sit "empty.".

Sometimes

the bombers practise far out at sea. When they do that the R.A.F. hns steam-driven trawler and drifter auxiliaries to retrieve any torpedoes used.

EVE

TVEN these auxiliaries do not exhaust the variety of this diverse Fleet. There are the mooring boats, with an immense task to fulfiì. All round the coasts are the moor- THERE'S another different

craft a seaplano-tendering sites for flying-boate. crashboat. It's speeding towards a plane that has been forced down at practice. Al- ways during practice a crash- boat is standing by ready to give aid in emergency.

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And what's that? A fly- ing-boat refueller moving off to the anchorage of half a dozen flying-bonts,

They're just back from patrol, the Eyes Over the Sea, after keeping ceaseless vigil on all Hitler is doing at the occupied ports from Norway's Bergen to France's Bordeaux, on whatever Nazi ship puts its nose into the North Sea or the Channel, on enemy, planes that set out to reconnoitre or raid Britain.

The flying-boat patrols are our first line of defence. They must be refuelled immediately they come back, ready for in- stant action again. The re-

Day and night they must be kept in perfect order. Round and round, doing the job, go the mooring boats, supplementing the work of the land mooring staffs.

Fast dinghies provide cont- munication between shore and aircraft at every sea station of Coastal Command, which ever has its own floating dock.

Broadly speaking. every high-speed launch that puts to sea on its mission of mercy, every major movement of this motley fleet, is like all coastal flying

directed operations, over the wireless and other lines inter communication from the G.H.Q.'s Ops. Room, the Brain-Box of C.C.

And the brain inside the Bee box-Bowhill-does he much?" answered one of his staff, "Why he lives there!"

Pupils Missing After Bombs Fell On School

Several boys were missing when the roll was called after bombs had damaged a school in a town on the south west coast of England. The body of one boy was recover- ed. A few others were injured and are in hospital.

Home Guards opened fire when an- Two nurses were seriously hurt when a Midlands sana- other south-east raider swept low torium was hit, but the 830 over a seaside village.

"He was so low that if we had been

Abute DEAN

Cage, 1900 by Kailed Postera Syaddaila, fun.

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MANILA'S HUMAN MOSQUITO TRAP

To help solve the unemployment problem and also study the habits of mosquitoes, Manila City Sanitary Engineer E. L. Ejercito has invented a "human mosquito-trap," reports United Press.

Girls Kept At It Near

Time Bomb

at it" "Keep Stories of heroines he had met in bombed areas of the Midlands were told by Mr. Herbert Morrison.

The Minister of Supply returned 10 London from a tour of his Depart- ment's factories.

An unexploded bamb (related the Minister) was 50 yards from the office arms factory. Four girls--- Malle Batchelor, Joan Blackwell, Joan Burns and Gertrude Sanders- had an important job to do in that office.

Went On Working Despite the danger they went on working, cheerfully and without fuss, for three days until the bomb, the area round which had been sandbagged, was made harmless.

Mr. Morrison talked to these four ziris and congr

fine devongratulated them on their

duty,

he said.

of

to "You were grund," He also how a number

told "delayed action" bombs were their objective, and fell in a store.

heavy

near another factory, missed

Because it was not certain whelber all the bombs had exploded, the whole of the adjoining general office building was evacuated, with the ex- Aware Of Risk ception of the telephones exchange.

The trap consists of a box with screened sides inside a large, similarly constructed box. Mosquitoes will be in- veigled through holes in the big box by the smell of "live" human bait inside the small box. The screens around the small box will protect the bait and enable department officials to capture the mosquitoes alive.

City experts anticipate a flood of applicants for the Peso 1.25 a day job, inasmuch as all the bait has to do is lic inside the trap eight hours a day and attract mosquitoes. Health officials were silent on whether or not persons natar- ally attractive to mosquitoca will be given preference.

Four such traps are boing the City constructed by Health Department to be in- stalled in four sections of the city. The mosquito season begins in December and enda in May, just as the rains be- gin, and, according to health authorities, failure to extor- minate the mosquitoes is due to lack of knowledge on what kind of mosquitoes thrive in each part of the city. The traps will help overcome this, health experts hope.

Each receives an extra patients had been taken to using tracer bullets we could have shut, down production would have nvasion Bells Were]

shelter and were untouched. got him," said one of them.

pence a day when at sea. AD- other sixpence beyond that

when they are bombed, proud

to be chosen for the privilego

of earning that last sixpence. They are one section of the little-known sea-arm of the flying men, the R.A.F.'s Own Navy, operated by Air Chief Marshal Sir Frederick Bow- hill's Coastal Command.

Day and night, at the Com- mand's sea stations around Britain's 4,000 miles of const line, the Airmen's Meet-never- stops working.

A bomb which seriously damaged "

the nurses' home inflicted the two.

Raiders Drowned

If the telephone service had been been seriously interfered with. So la call was made for girls to volunteer

to operate a skeleton service,

Six out of the eight gris then on

casualties. An annexe to a ward in: A night raider was shot down off duty-Misses E. M. Leggo, D. Ager, the main building, which the patients the north-east coast of England.

W, Bibby, D. Russell, J. M. Arrow-

Rung In Error

London, Sept. 9.) Church bells, the signal for at- had just left, was also damaged. The plane was caught in search-smith and B. J. Wyattmasked to be tempted invasion, ware rung in two An enemy bomber crossing the lights as it was driven out to sea. allowed to stay at their switch-areas-false alarms-on September 7. south east court saw In grounded There was heavy anti-aircraft and boards, though fully aware of the

machine-gun Ore.

Finally selection had to be made plane.

Buddenly sparks were seen to

by seniority; and four senior girls come from the machine, Boon slayed at their posts in a room almost afterwards, so it lost height, one of vertically above, the position of the 'the occupants baled 'oul

bomb until the danger, was over Avo

Thinking it wis

drope, the German released some

heavy bombe, all of which fell wide

-

of the mark

The plane on the ground was a Messerschnitt 118 which had been

rink

Mr. Morrison commented: "When Hiller planned war against Britain, he couldn't have known our

A second parachute was seen to hours later. leave the plane. So, far there has shot down by a Splifire hours be been no report of any of the oce fore. The pilot had been badly. wounded, but the second occupant ja and it is presumed that they were people were made of such stuff as was unharmed.

pants of the plane being found

drowned

Suspicions were aroused when at coastal town men had seen boats that could not be accounted for coming towards the town and the whole West Country was on the alert It may have been due to a fishing for five hours. feet returning through the mist lier than expected: Police in Surrey are investigating another false arm given on September 7 in the householders. Woking area, which greatly alarmed

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