LOST AIR FORCE 'PLANE
POSTAL OFFICER MORSES
CAR LAMP AND MIRROR
OnlteJ Press Association—By. Electric TeUgrapb—Copyrlfcht ' ' (Beceivcd January 29, 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 28. With resourcefulness recalling Albury's world-famed action in the Centenary Air Eace, Mr. Norman Wells, postal supervisor, who in wartime wa« a signaller, saved a lost Air ' Force bomber from a perilous forced landing. The aeroplane repeatedly circled Skegness, asking for the town's name by Morse. Wells was unr.ble to operate the street lights, which are gas, so , he borrowed a mirror, commandeered a car, and flashed a reply to the sky with the light from a headlamp, whereupon the aeroplane immediately ' signalled "OK, thanks," and flew offi to the aerodrome. ■ •
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 9
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114LOST AIR FORCE 'PLANE Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 24, 29 January 1935, Page 9
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