LAST FLIGHT MADE
FAMOUS FLYING-BOAT
Rec. noon. RUGBY, May 29. Norwegian aircrews in this country and Norwegians still under Nazi domination will miss the famous Catalina flying-boat Vingtor, named after a Viking god. It has now gone into retirement after exceptionally long ser-j vice. The crew claimed that the Vingtor could almost find its own way to Norway, it had been there so often. People over there knew it and used to stand in the fields waving to the crew as they passed overhead. "We believed as much in her invincibility as the Vikings did in their god Vingtor," said her pilot. "We are parting with our old friend. We hope that when the R.A.F. is finished with her they will hand her over so that she can go to a museum we intend to found after the war. She was our first machine to go into battle against the Hun."—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 126, 30 May 1944, Page 5
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151LAST FLIGHT MADE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 126, 30 May 1944, Page 5
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