THE FIRST PLANES
ARRIVAL IN MIDDLE EAST
Rec. 11.20 a.m.
RUGBY, Sept. 13,
Two Italian aircraft, the first to escape from the Germans, have arrived in the Middle East, states a Cairo correspondent. Both were complete with crews of six. They are three-engined planes, almost brand new. The Italian crew of the first plane posed laughingly for their photographs on a beach.
The captain of one plane said that the relations between the Italian air crews and the ground staffs and their German counterparts had been un-beai-able for a long time.' There was open friction and often blows, and orders from senior officers would be disobeyed by a junior of opposite nationality. "We were sick of it all," he added.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 5
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