NORWEGIAN AIRMEN
RUGBY, Jan. 12.
Airmen manning planes of the Royal Norwegian Air Force spent the day just before Christmas flying back over their homeland to deliver to their countrymen gifts of cheer in the form of coffee, chocolate, cigarettes, and tobacco. The story has only just been released so that the Norwegians have had time to dispose of the gifts. One member of the staff of tho Norwegian Information Office, who was in ono of the aircraft, said that they flew low toward the Norwegian coast, tho aircraft loaded to capacity with sacks of Christmas parcels. They cou'.d see people waving to them. In ono place two boys in a field threw themselves to the ground as they camo roaring over, but when tho sacks did not explode they got up and stood with their eyes fixed on the planes till they disappeared. The dropping of the sacks was later inteirupted by the arrival of a German plane, which, however, was shaken off and the Norwegians returned to England safely.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXIV, Issue 39, 14 January 1944, Page 5
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