SAVED FROM MINES
(Daventry Broadcast.) LONDON, Monday Night. The story is told of how the British Auxiliary Air Force saved a convoy of merchant ships in the North Sea from probable destruction by enemy mines. Drifting mines were observed in the path of the ships, and in each case smoke flares were dropped, and .warnings flashed. In , one case the ships changed course, and in the other the mines were exploded by machinegun fire from an escorting destroyer.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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78SAVED FROM MINES Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1939, Page 7
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