MALTESE COMPOSURE
An American pilot, from Los Angeles, serving with the R.A F., arrived in Cairo the other day after seven months in Malta. In a talk for a 8.8. C. Newsreel, he said: . . the guvs I take my hat off to are the ground crews. They work like dogs from morning to night, seeing that each particular ship is in tip-top shape. You come down in the middle of a long raid, and they would be waiting. with oil-cans, batteries, ammunition, and gasolene. They’d be one in every machine, and they would be there after dark, filling in the bullet holes. . . . I’ve seen a crew of Maltese refuellers fill up ship after ship during a terrific bombing raid on the aerodrome. They don’t seem to pay any attention to the bombs; they didn't even wear a tin hat.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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139MALTESE COMPOSURE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 12 August 1942, Page 6
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