MYSTERY FLIGHT
i BIG BRITISH-OPERATED BOMBER 1 ON A ROUND-THE-W’ORLI) FLIGHT Honolulu, Oct. 27. The United Press of America learned that a British-operated f | Consolidated 8.24 bomber, carry- | in/? four American and eight Brite | ish and Australian airmen, has ars | rived on a round-the-world flight, 14 the purpose of which is not dis- - 1 closed. i The itinerary is understood to be New Y'ork to Greenland, Iceland, r Britain, Palestine, Egypt, India, 1 Australia, the Philippines, Russia, 1 Alaska, and Wake and Midway Islands. It is reliably reported that the bomber has 30 bullet-holes and scars from five brushes with the enemy during its long flight.— U.P.A. ROVING COMMISSION London, Oct. 26. ! The aeronautical correspondent cf I the “Daily Express” says squadrons of Spitfires and Hurricanes are now going > ; lo France with roving commissions. * Their only instructions are to search ” - for the best targets in a specified area ” j and then destroy them with cannon.—
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 28 October 1941, Page 5
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