NEW BRITISH PLANE
SEABORNE SPITFIRE. VALUABLE AID IN DEFENCE OF CONVOYS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 24. Pictures of the latest British seaborne Spitfire, adapted for use from aircraft-carriers, were published today. Large numbers of these ‘‘Seafires” helped to protect the Allied warships, troops, and supplies reaching . North Africa till aerodromes from which the land-based fighters could operate were captured. Such Spitfire fighters add materially to the defence of convoys steaming beyond the range of shorebased fighters. Carrier-borne aircraft hitherto have been handicapped by their necessary low landing speed, but the Seafire has a special arresting hook.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1942, Page 3
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