N.Z. AIRMEN HUNT U-BOATS
(Special P.A. Correspondent.) Rec. 12.45 a.m. LONDON, May 1. A Leigh light aircraft, in which the air-gunner is Flight Sergeant H. J. Miilis (Gisbbrne) and the radio operator Flight Sergeant Fred Bailey (Blenheim), recently attacked six U-boats in two operational nights using depthcharges and cannon lire. One U-boat was attacked while on the surface. It defended itself with anti-aircraft fire, but Miilis saw debris after the explosions of depth-charges, which briliahtly lit Up the darkness. Bailey saw nothing1 of the ■ attacks from his radio cubbyhole, and complains that he "joined the R.A.F. to see some action, and the world," but,sees
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1944, Page 5
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104N.Z. AIRMEN HUNT U-BOATS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 102, 2 May 1944, Page 5
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