How Tito’s Forces Were Supplied
Received Friday, 8.30 pm. OTTAWA, Sept. 1. Everything from radios to political agents was carried into Yugoslavia by Liberators of a special R.A.F. branch created to supply Tito’s partisans, according to Squadron Leader S. J. Madill, D.F.C. and Order of the Crown of Yugoslavia, of the R.N.Z.A.F. Madill said the Liberators operating from Egypt transported mostly captured arms and ammunition. German night fighters occasionally chased the Liberators, hut the weather was the worst enemy. The crews were forced to fly low in order to drop political agents and officers by parachute. Oxygen was not provided and it was impossible to fly above the bad weather. Madill also carried to Greece a team of commandos who blow up the main railway bridge between Athens and Salonika—one much used by the Germans. Madill is an Aucklander and was a member of the first draft of personnel of the R.N.Z.A.F. He graduated at DunnviUe Flying School, Ontario, in June, 1941.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 208, 2 September 1944, Page 5
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