This same. pilot has also taken part in laying of mines by air at the entrances to narrow channels at German harbour mouths, This operation involves most accurate navigation by night, and low nying under the very noses of the Germans.
The American member of the group is a tall fair-haired sergeant, and the first of his nationality to join the Empire training scheme. The first operation on which he flew was in laying mines ın narrow shipping channels off the German and Dutch coasts, The youngest of the party is a Canadian sergeant who went straight from a vocational school in Toronto to the Air Force, He has already been on a number of attacks on German shipping with bombs and torpedoes, and has flown on night raids over enemy occupied ports, "The biggest job so far" he told me, "has been to dive-bomb German ships in a convoy. The warships protecting the convoy let us have plenty, but missed. We dived down on them just as they were coming out of the mouth of the Ems river, in daylight, and I saw a stick of bombs fall on the bow of one of the ships"
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