IN FLYING-BOAT CREWS
TWO DOMINION AIRMEN HELPED TO SINK U-BOAT (Special Correspondent.) (11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July if). Flight-Sergeant R. C. Armstrong, of Piopio, and Flight-Sergeant N. T. Aldridge, of Christchurch, are serving in the same Sunderland flying-boat squadron. '• Flight - Sergeant Armstrong, who is .a gunner, recently participated in the killing of a U-boat. “Three other aircraft dropped depth charges, then we went in,” he said. •“I had a great chance for shooting and could see the Germans crumpling up and falling as a result ot our fire. Our Sunderland gave the final punch to the kill.” Flight - Sergeant Armstrong, who previously served in the Bomber Command, carried out many raids over Germany.
Flight-Sergeant Aldridge is a navigator. He-recently guided a 1 Sunderland flying-boat to a lifeboat, -all the survivors of- which were subsequently saved.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21148, 16 July 1943, Page 4
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