PROTECT SHIPS
A little heard-of section of anti-air-craft defence is the English Channel Mobile Balloon Barrage flotilla. This flotilla has . been engaged in escorting convoys through the Straits of Dover for more than two years, during which time only one ship has been lost through air attacks from its convoys. In two years,. the vessels attached to the Mobile Balloon Barrage have steamed a total of 227,000 miles and have given protection to more than 3000 merchant ships in convoy. Most of the vessels have escorted more than 100. convoys, and one vessel has the record of more than 34 consecutive convoys without a break. Only one officer and rating of this service have been killed through air attacks on the convoys. The flotilla consists of a number of small craft operated by the Royal Navy, and equipped with barrage balloons, supplied and serviced by the R.A.F.
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Flak, Volume 1, Issue 8, 25 June 1943, Page 7
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147PROTECT SHIPS Flak, Volume 1, Issue 8, 25 June 1943, Page 7
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