"WINGED" BOMBER LIMPS BACK HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 306, 28 December 1939, Page 8

"WINGED" BOMBER LIMPS BACK HOME.

LA\DL\G AT yiGHT.

Crew Scatter By Using

Parachutes

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