DOVER PATROL

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 145, 21 June 1941, Page 8

DOVER PATROL

NEWS OF ITS WORK

LIFE-SAVERS FOR AIRMEN

ENTHUSIASTIC YOUTH

(Rec. 12.30 p.mA) LONDON, June 20.

j The Dover Patrol, which won fame in the Great War, is again carrying on good work, on. which some light has been thrown fbr the first time by the British United Press correspondent, Harold Dingnian, who says that the patrol is mostlcy composed of youngsters who think their life one of the finest in the world.' They have been shelled, bombed, macihine-gunned, and mined, but work day and night, "sweeping up mines, doin;g rescue ■ work, charting old wrecks, ;j.nd finding new ones, and doing any odd job.

Some days pass uneventfully; on others shells come shrieking from France, or dive-bombers hurtle from the sky. The patrol has brought down many raiderrs.

Mr. Dingrjian says he spent a day on a little ship which ploughed up and down the J Straits, doing repairs which might mean saving a British or German pilot who crashed into the sea. A steel ladder is attached to every, ljuoy, so that a pilot can climb to safety, while lashed to every wreck that standi* above the water are water, food, whiisky, cigarettes, and even clothing. ' The Germans recently launched big steel rafts containing a chamber with enough supplies to keep several Enen alive for several days, and even a 'wireless signalling set. If a raft is found broken from its moorings it is, taken to port for investigation, repaired, reprovisioned, and dropped into the sea again.—U.P.A.