AN AIR EPIC.
WATER FOR CALAIS GARRISON.
DROPPED BY PARACHUTES.
.'(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 2.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 31.
The Air Ministry announced 35 minutes after midnight: “Squadrons of Royal Air Force components, flying with great daring, have added to the epics of the defence of Calais by diopping water, ammunition and hand gienades to the heroic garrison of the Allied troops and marines. It was late at night when orders were received at an air field in the South of England that water and ammunition could be taken to the garrison of the Citadel ay air. Each aircraft was loaded with two containers which fitted into the bombrack. The containers, cylindrical in shape, each carried 10 gallons and were fitted with parachutes that opened automatically as soon as they were ie~ leased from the aircraft.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 200, 1 June 1940, Page 6
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