R.A.F. Boston bombers have a technique of low-level daylight attack from cloud cover, which is peculiarly their own. Hunting in twos or singly, they swoop from the clouds to roof-top level, deliver their “packet” dead on the target and are away for home. A squadron of Boston 111 aircraft of Bomber Command setting out for a raid.
New Yak-1 (1-26) fighter planes ready for shipment to the front, on the grounds of the Soviet “X" aircraft factory.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 6
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77R.A.F. Boston bombers have a technique of low-level daylight attack from cloud cover, which is peculiarly their own. Hunting in twos or singly, they swoop from the clouds to roof-top level, deliver their “packet” dead on the target and are away for home. A squadron of Boston 111 aircraft of Bomber Command setting out for a raid. New Yak-1 (1-26) fighter planes ready for shipment to the front, on the grounds of the Soviet “X" aircraft factory. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 6
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