AIRMEN SPEND LEAVE AT SEA
*- — • SCHEME INTRODUCED IN BRITAIN (8.0. W.) RUGBY, April 9. ; Two pilot officers of heavy bombers have just returned from a week’s official holiday; at sea. They are the first to take part in a scheme ‘ to give bomber crews a complete change from flying and at the same time introduce them to the coastal patrol system, which hot only keeps watch against invasion" but rescues airmen who have been forced down in the sea.. - • [ The pilots boarded a small but wellarmed trawler, states the Air Ministry. Their quarters were cramped. They steered near minefields, they moved at i tortoise 'speed, they were in danger from enemy air attack, yet they i thought if as good as any peace-time holiday, , , . . (-There has been a demand from airi xheh to take trips under the new .'scheme, ■ ■ :
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23302, 12 April 1941, Page 12
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