R.N.Z.A.F. SQUADRON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 28 April 1945, Page 5

R.N.Z.A.F. SQUADRON

BUSY THREE WEEKS (R.N.Z.A.F. Official News Service) London, April 24. No fewer than 180 sorties have been flown and over 140 tons of 5001 b bombs have been hurled on to Ger- . man soil by the R.N.Z.A.F. Mosquito j Squadron during th e last three weeks. Operating from France with the Second Tastical Air Force, the squadron ! made many successful night attacks over northern Germany. Of late they I have gone right to Berlin, where pilots report a ceaseless red glow over the i city. With everything disorganised ! in enemy territory pilots are not given specific targets, but drop their bombs on villages and woods either \o rout ■ a band of resisting troops or stoke up ■ existing fires. i Flying Officer L. V. Parker, of Moi tueka. said: “I have been over one i area for three or four nights in suc- | cession and the same fires were still I burning.” CAPTURED ALMOST INTACT London, April 26. One of Germany’s latest type of secret list planes, the jet-propelled AR234, has been captured almost intact on the Ninth Army front after it crash-landed in no-man’s-land. The pilot was killed. The plane is being sent to Britain for examination.