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AIR SUPPLIES FOR TITO
OTTAWA, August 31. Everything from radios to political agents was carried.into Yugoslavia by Liberators of the special R.A.F. branch created to supply Marshal Tito's Partisans, according to Squadron Leader S. J. Madill, D.F.C., and Order of the Grown of Yugoslavia, of the R.N.Z.A.F. Madill said the Liberators, operating from Egypt, transported mostly captured arms and ammunition. German night fighters occasionally chased them, but the weather ; was worse than the enemy. The ;crews were forced to fly low through .thunderstorms in order to drop political agents and army by parachute. Oxygen was hot provided and it was impossible to fly- above the bad weather. ■ '..; r . Madill also carried to Greece a team of commandos, who blew up the main railway bridge between Athens and Salonika —one which was much used • by the Germans.; Madill is an.lAucklander, and was a member of the first draft of personnel,of the R.N.Z.A.F. who graudated .at Dunnville Flying School, Ontario, in June, 1941.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 8
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