ACCURATE R.A.F.
TRIBUTE BY REPATRIATED PRISONER OF WAR A tribute to the accurate bombing of the Royal Air Force is given by a Wanganui repatriated prisoner of war, Driver M. B. Wallace. He was in a prisoner-of-war camp at a place called Brux, in Sudentenland, near a g ant synthetic oil plant, in which some 45,000 forced labourers were at work. It, and the centre round about, was a major target for the Allied bombers —Americans by day, R.A.F. by night. “In the daytime we got out of the road,” said Driver Wallace, “but at night the R.A.F. was so accurate that we did not get out of bed. In would come the pathfinder, drop his flares and in would come the bombs, right on the mark. Anybody who says the Royal Air Force knows the job of accurate bombing, is speaking nothing but the truth.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 213, 8 September 1945, Page 4
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