DON’T DIRTY BARRELS: ARMOURER’S WARNING
When veterans of No. 30 Squadron and Servicing Unit, R.N.Z.A.F., gathered for the annual reunion at the Gisborne showgrounds on Saturday evening one of the features of the entertainement was the exhibition of films made during the units’ operational stay at Bougainville, during a critical stage of the Pacific campaign One of the films depicted a raid’by Warhawk fighter-bombers on the Japaese airstrip at Buka, the aircraft going in with bombs first and then following up with machine-gun straffing of the strip and adjacent buildings. The commentator directed attention to the latter manoeuvre and described, rather superfluously for an audience of airmen, the object and sequence of the action as photographed from the cockpit of one of the attacking planes. As the photographer’s plane dipped steeply over the enemy airstrip the lens picked up individual targets on the ground, and as these came into the sights the pilot steadied his machine and moved a hand to the mechanism controlling the fire of his guns. At the critical moment, an armourer in the audience found the strain too great. “Don’t dirty those flaming barrels!’* he yelled.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 4
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190DON’T DIRTY BARRELS: ARMOURER’S WARNING Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22657, 7 June 1948, Page 4
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