CAPTIVE OF JAPAN
NEWS OF CANADIAN AIRMAN RUGBY, Mar. 15. On April 4, 1942, Squadron Leader L. J. Birchall, Royal Canadian Air Force, sent back a warning to his base at Ceylon of the approach of a Japanese fleet, accompanied by five aircraft carriers. The warning is credited with having saved Ceylon from invasion, but Birchall failed to return from the reconnaissance, and was presumed lost, says the Air Ministry News Service. Now, nearly a year later, his wife in St. John, New Brunswick, has received word that he is a prisoner in Japanese hands.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25176, 17 March 1943, Page 3
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