VETERAN CATALINA
Vingtor Retired After Long
Active Service WELL KNOWN OVER NORWAY British Official Wireless Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, May 29. Norwegian air crews in this country, and Norwegians still under Nazi domination, will miss the famous Catalina flying boat Vingtor, named after the Viking god. It has now gone into retirement after exceptionally long service. The crew claimed that Vingtor could- almost find its own way to Norway, it has been there so often. People over there know it and used to stand in the fields waving to the crew as they passed overhead.
"We believe as much in her invincibility as the Vikings did in their god Vingtor," said her pilot. "We are parting with an old friend. We hope when the R.A.F. is finished with her they will hand her over so that she can go to the museum we intend to fund after the war. She was our first machine to go into battle against the Hun."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 126, 30 May 1944, Page 5
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