BRITISH AIRMEN
ADRIFT IN RUBBER DINGHY SIGHTED BY DUTCH ALLIES. SHIP GUIDED TO RESCUE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) RUGBY, October 2. Dutch allies rendered a service to their R.A.F. comrades recently when Dutch airmen, flying Ansons of the Coastal Command, sighted a rubber dinghy with five men aboard drifting in the Irish Sea. They found and guided a ship to the rescue of the dinghy’s occupants, who were the crew of a British aircraft which had made a forced landing on the water.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1940, Page 6
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