AIR WORK IN LIBYA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 28, 3 February 1941, Page 7

AIR WORK IN LIBYA

THANKS TO BRITISH FACTORY

HANDS

(British Official wireless.)

RUGBY, February 1

A young pilot officer who has just returned to Britain from Libya had a great reception when he spoke to hundreds of aircraft workers engaged in making air filters for the use of R.A.F. machines in the east. He brought his squadron's thanks for the work these people had done, which, he said, had enabled their planes to be flown successfully under desert conditions.

"You work hard here and get no fun," he went on. "You get bombed, but we go up and get the fun." .

Speaking of his experiences against the Italians, the pilot said he had never seen fewer than 27 enemy machines together, and once his squadron ran into a formation consisting of one Italian bomber escorted by 57 fighters. "On another patrol 13 of us met 37 Italians," he said. "Seven of them turned tail and fled without putting up any fight, and then we shot down 15 in eight minutes, losing two machines ourselves."