COLOURED SEA TRAIL. AIDS RESCUE: Trailing a packet containing fluoresccne, a chemical which gives off a stream of brilliant yellow in the sea, is a member of a British air crew supposedly shot down and adrift in a rubber dinghy. The yeliow path left on the sea by the chemical enables spotting aircraft to see the dinghy more easily.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 199, 5 January 1942, Page 3
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59COLOURED SEA TRAIL. AIDS RESCUE: Trailing a packet containing fluoresccne, a chemical which gives off a stream of brilliant yellow in the sea, is a member of a British air crew supposedly shot down and adrift in a rubber dinghy. The yeliow path left on the sea by the chemical enables spotting aircraft to see the dinghy more easily. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 199, 5 January 1942, Page 3
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