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Evening Star, Issue 25472, 1 May 1945, Page 3

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The Royal ?vavy can afford to laugh at. itself. And at a story told by " a (Royal Naval lieutenant-commander at a Legacy Club lunch in Sydney others laughed, too. Although much beloved by its pilots, the Swordfish plane, mainstay of the Fleet Air Arm for several years of the war. appeared to others as a slow and clumsy old biplane. Its service nickname is " Stringbag." One was forced down one day near an American warship, and a rescue boat picked up the pilot and observer and took them on board The American captain silently watched from the deck. As the two dripping airmen climbed ,up the ladder he looked at- them, and at the remains of their plane, and then stooped forward to ?reet them. "Ah." he snid. " thf Wright brothers. I presume." Family preparation for Colds. Consrhs.' WOODS' GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE. W. E. Woods Ltd.. Lambton Quay, Wellington.—[Advt.]