Enlistment “Raid”
; Bombers over Auckland Bombers from Hobsonville last Thursday night gave Auckland a firsthand idea of an air raid. They swooped over Queen Street and swept ,-rom one end to another, seeming to >e just high enough to miss the flag )oles on the roofs of some buildings. ( From the rear gunner’s seat a figure n flying kit dropped handfuls of leaflets. Though many of the leaflets were Either caught in the slip-stream or [uttered in eddies of wind on to buildngs or over Queen Street, many 'cored direct hits, and were eagerly ushed by hundreds of people. " On the leaflets was this: “If this zere a bomb, where would you be? )ur kindred in Great Britain are livag. under the constant dread of aerial attack, and facing it with fortitude, iemember what happened to Austria-Jzecho-Slovakia and Poland. Could we expect any 'different treatment? We .re at war to defend their rights and ( urs. What are you doing to help? uphe Army needs men now. It needs r ou. Enlist today—” The intention of the flight, which mbraced Queen Street, Karangahape toad and Newmarket, was to entourage men to enlist. It was arrang'd by the Auckland Metropolitan Patriotic Committee with the co-opera-on of the Army and the Royal New ealand Air Force. »
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 11, 23 February 1940, Page 3
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