AIRMEN INTERNED IN SWEDEN
AIRFIELDS RESEMBLE BOMBER
BASES
London, April 13
A number of Swedish airfields are beginning' to resemble American bomber bases in Britain ,says the Stockholm correspondent of the Associated Press. Thirty-six crippled Fortresses and Liberators have landed in Sweden and more than 3000 airmen have been interned. The Swedish and American authorities who have the responsibility of caring for the internees are facing a housing problem. A special train carrying 190 American airmen who landed in Sweden since Eastei Sunday left Malmoe to-day for the north, where the men are being interned under Swedish auspices.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13428, 15 April 1944, Page 3
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