N.Z. RADIO OPERATORS
WORK AT MADAGASCAR LANDING ’BY BRITISH (Special Correspondent.) (2.40 p.m.) Aug. 12. ‘ Three New Zealand. . telegraphists who followed the course .oLtke occupation of Courier Bay and Diego Suarez by the wireless communications they handled are now on leave in London. They are I. R. Forrester of Wanganui, J. F. Ingram of Petone and L.' A. Powell of Christchurch. Telegraphist Forrester said: “We speuLthree days each in Courier Bay and'Diego Suarez. We arrived in the bay /in brijhr'tnoonlight just after midnight in, a‘ snip which put landing parties ashore, .but being busy handlingiwireless communications between the 'shore and ship and ship, we did not‘See any action except when two French aeroolahes machine-gunned the' beaches. ‘ ?“• ' J , v • “ . “Later we spent three weeks at Port Elizabeth where we found New ZealandeVs were most popular.” The trio were .trained for co-oper-ating with the commandos.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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