The Archive · 1940

Regularity

"Almost with the regularity of an express tain, the bombers returned fon time ax dawn was breaking. 'The only recent mishap was the case of one wheel of the undercarriage falling to descend, The pilot, however, made the neatest Ianding on a single Wheel, doing no more damage to his machine than a' grazing of the wing tin.

"Directly the machines fanded. they were handed over to an efficient ground staff, whase painstaking uaintensnee, despite difficulties ereatfed by sandstorms, which seem to have unlimited power In. penetrating any machinery, has been largely re~ Sponsible for the smooth carrying out of these raids.

"Although this aerodrome has been bombed in the past by the Italians. no damage hax been done to men or machines. {now hag a-strong anti= fireraft guard, provided partly by the TAT, and partly by New Zealanders, while the Tatest arrivals of Hur-"anes. in the Western Desert have naturally been universally wel

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