Trucks Scatter When Damaged Bomber Lands
(Special) SYDNEY. This Day. Construction trucks scattered wndly when a Liberator bomber made an emergency landing on an uncompleted airstrip at Cape Gloucester, westeim New Britain. Damaged bv Zeros 800 miles from its base, the Liberator struggled over 200 miles of ocean to make its emergency landing. Two of four attacking Zeros were shot down. When the bomber prepared to land at Cape Gloucester as an alternative to crashing in the ocean, a control tower officer switched on a red warning light, believing that the strip was too short. Only one truck on the strip failed to manoeuvre out of the bomber's way and the propeller sheared off its exhaust pipe.
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Northern Advocate, 15 March 1944, Page 3
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