FIGHTERS LAUNCHED BY ROCKET
LONDON, January 22
German newspapers reveal that the Luftwaffe i; using a new rocket device for launching fighters as part ct the defence against Royal Air Force sweeps over the Channel. The device enables lighters quickly to climb t■ > 7000 feel with an original speed nl nearly 400 miles an hour. This gives the defending aeroplanes ample height before the arrival of raiders.
'•lt was terrible to hear 'he ne’.'’ s that, the Prince of Wales and 'he R e * pulse had been sunk, and it ' as hard to believe, as I had only seen them steam out a couple of days earlier, wrote a Wanganui man stationed m Singapore. "The survivors began w arrive about 10 p.m., and it was a sigh l I will never rorgei. They had practically no clothing, just shirt;. towel-; lifebelt;, and rags wrapped touch them, and the majority v.n« covere in oil. Tlie numlji r nl n.t-n rescue was more than 201)0. and .- '•vral v - fcl injured Finch man "a- ;:i'-cn n '■ Of sauwmrs. pola-om.. and Ira. I , ■ hero »’JS no air raid alarm teat h'2- • I don’t kjv“"v what ~-o u'd have happened if there Vjml been."
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23545, 24 January 1942, Page 8
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