BOMBER STOLEN
OFFICER FLIES TO GIBRALTAR.! LONDON, April 11. i Hon- a voting French officer stole i a bomber during a military parade in Morocco and flew it, with fighters in pursuit, to Gibraltar, is described by i the Gibraltar correspondent ol the Daily Express. “I was a marked man. because it; was known that I was a de Gaulle j supporter,” said the pilot, “and 1 was not given ball' a cliance to escape! | However, I kept on trying, and found I as a partner a young air-gunner, who recognised that the parade was our chance. “Bombers and fighters were drawn up for a military decoration ceremony, which was attended by three Admirals and two Generals. Alter our planes had been inspected, the gunner tugged ; my sleeve and whispered ‘Now or j never.’ He slipped behind it twinengined bomber and climbed into it! unnoticed. J followed, and told an j officer tliat I was going to taxi it across tlie field to the hangar. “T swung it front the line, roared I along the runway, took of!', and hero we are. ”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 7
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182BOMBER STOLEN Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 128, 1 May 1941, Page 7
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