WHERE BRITISH. BOMBERS LOSE SCARS OF BATTLE: A section of the fuselage of a British Wellington bomber undergoing treatment at the hands of an electric riveter. Usually it takes only five days for British bombers, damaged during raids on enemy targets or by forced landings on their return from raids, to be repaired and sent out on the job again with the Royal Air Force.
“Mon Dieu! I was Afraid it was My Back Tyre” Cartoon from the London News Chronicle.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3137, 29 June 1942, Page 3
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81WHERE BRITISH. BOMBERS LOSE SCARS OF BATTLE: A section of the fuselage of a British Wellington bomber undergoing treatment at the hands of an electric riveter. Usually it takes only five days for British bombers, damaged during raids on enemy targets or by forced landings on their return from raids, to be repaired and sent out on the job again with the Royal Air Force. “Mon Dieu! I was Afraid it was My Back Tyre” Cartoon from the London News Chronicle. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 51, Issue 3137, 29 June 1942, Page 3
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