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AIRMEN

FUNNY SIDE UP

ACT

AS TARGETS

By JOHN CASHEL

IXPENCE a day to be

S1 bombed! Don't laugh.

That really happens.

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

They are one of many trios of brave men of Britain's Royal Air Force who spced over the coastal ranges round our shores in armoured target motor-bonts NO that our bombers can learn and per- feet 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.

crash-helmets - They wear and eur-protectors, and the covers the wheel- house, engine-room and hull of their craft. The rest is packed. with a buoyant material to prevent it from being sunk by a good hit.

Armour

* * * 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.

some-

flash The target boats along at 20 knots, turning. zig-zagging, dodging the prac-

A hit tico bombers. times capsizes them. The three men, good swimmers and specially trained for the job, dive clear, right their bout if it does not automatic- ally right itself, clamber in again, ready for the next fall of bombs.

Nothing extraordinary for them. Just routine heroes!

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Come to a typical station. Besides the target houts you sec the better-known high- speed launches. With a crow of ten under a master mar- iner, they race out at 40 knots, rescuing Nazi airmen shot or forced down at sea, and-although this need is jess often-our own sea- 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 sen to take off and another to come down. A second pinnace dashes across the harbour carrying stores of water. A third is off to re- cover torpedoes fired by air- craft at practice over the bombing range,

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✡ ✩ THERE'S another different craft-a seaplane tender or 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.

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

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,

enemy planes on

that set out to reconnoitre or rald Britain.

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

fueller 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-hout, if the hunting has been good, needs a fresh load of bombs as well as petrol,

They want the bombs, the bomb-scow has them. They No are 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. has steam-driven trawler and drifter auxiliaries to retrieve any torpedoes used.

EVEN these auxiliaries do

not exhaust the variety of this diverse Fleet. There are the mooring boats, with an immense task to fulfil. All round the consts are the moor- ing sites for flying-boats.

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

every

Broadly speaking, high-speed launch that puts to sea on its mission of merey, every major movement of this motley fleet, is like all coastal flying operations, directed 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 box-Bowhill-docs he see much?" answered one of his staff, "Why he lives there""

Pupils Missing After Bombs Fell On School

Abuel DEAN.

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By Abner Dean

Opć, 1948 by Dabled Vestare Syndicate, Inn

By

4-10

"Call up the broadcasting company and tell that woman her slip's showing!"

HUMAN MANILA'S 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

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

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

An unexploded bomb (related the Minister) was 50 yards from the office fan arms factory. Four girls- Maiste Batchelor, Joan Blackwell. Joan Burns and Gertruda Sanders→→→ 18d an important job to do in that

fire.

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 tirls and congratulated them on their

fine devotion to

to duty.

You were, grand," he said.

He also told how a number

of

Several boys were missing when the roll was called heavy delayed action" bombs were

and fell

in a their objective, and

a store. after bombs had damaged a school in a town on the south-iropped near another factory, missed Because it was not certain whether the all the bombs had exploded, west coast of England. The body of one boy was recover- led. A few others were injured and are in hospital.

whole of the adjoining general office. Home Guards opened fire when an-building was evacuated, with the ex-. Two nurses were seriously hurt when a Midlands sana- other south-east raider swept low ception of the telephones exchange.

Aware Of Risk torium was hit, but the 330 over a seaside village.

"He was so low that if we had been patients had been taken to using tracer bullets we could have shut down production would have Each receives an extra six-shelter and word untouched. got him," said one of them.

THEIR captain is a corporal carning 78. 9d. a day. The other two are leading air- craftmen, pay 58. 3d., or possi bly one is an aircraftman, pay 4s. 6d.

pence a day when at sen, An- other sixpence beyond that when they are bombed, proud to be chosen for the privilege of earning that last sixpence, They are one section of the little-known sca-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 sen stations around Britain's 4,000 miles of const line, the Airmen's Fleet never stopa working.

A bomb which seriously damaged the nurses' home inflicted the two casualties. An annexe to a ward in

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

skeleton service. to operate

Six out of the eight girls then on A night raider was shot down off duty-Misses E. M. Leggo, D. Ager, W. Bibby, D. Russell, J. M. Arrow-

Raiders Drowned

the main building, which the patients the north-east coast of England. had just left, was also damaged.

B

Thinking it was on An дето- drome, the German released soma heavy bombe, sil of which fell wide of the mark.

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 oficials 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 lie inside the trap eight hours a day and attract mosquitoes. Health officials were silent on whether or not persons natur- ally attractive to mosquitoes will be given preference.

Four such traps are being constructed by the City Health Department to be in- stalled in four sections of the city. The mosquito season begins in December and ends in May, just as the rains be- gin, and, according to health authorities, failure to exter- 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.

Invasion Bells Were

+

Rung In Error

London, Sept. 9. Church bells, the signal for at- The plane was caught in search-smith and B. J. Wyatt asked to be tempted invasion, were rung in two of the Suspicions were aroused when at a An enemy bomber crossing the lights as it was driven out to sea.nilowed to stay at their switch-areas-false alarms-on September 7. boots constal grounded There was heavy anti-aircraft and boards, though fully aware

town men had seen risk. south-east coast saw

machine-gun fire. plano.

Finally selection had to be made that could not be accounted for Buddenly sparks were seen to

by seniority; and four senior girls coming towards the town and the come from the machine. Boon stayed at their posts in a room almost whole West Country was on the alert afterwards, as it lost height, one of vertically above the position of the for five hours.

It may have been due to a fishing the occupants baled out.

bomb until the danger was over five

fleet returning through the mist pier than expected. Police in hours later.

Surrey are investigating another falso arm given on September 7 in the Woking aren, which greatly alarmed householders.

The plane on the ground was a Messerschmitt 110 which had been khot: down by a Spitfire hours be- fore. The plot had been badly wounded, but the second occupant was unharmed.

A second parachute was men to leave the plane. So far there has Mr. Morrison commented:

"When Hitler planned war against been no report of any of the docu- pants of the blane being found Britain, he couldn't have known our and is presumed that they were people were made of such stuff as drowned.

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