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Bomber Crew Beat Out Flames with Curtains London, Nov. 14.
With her bomb racks. and a, wing ablaze, a Wellington bomber hea: Ing' for home. was for two hours faming target for German anti-aircraft gunners on Friday night during fan "leo" raid on Germany.
'Huminated by her own incendiary bombs, with her hatch doors jammed and the pilot nearly' suffocated by Blinding Smoke, this' Wellington, one of the. squadron provided by" the Federated Malay States, blazed a wall across Germany and occupied territories until, her petrol gone, she was put down in the Channel, three hours after her high-explosive bombs had found their appointed targets. in, Bertin.
Because the target was clouded over, the crew saved their incendiary fos, ahd when shells burs them shortly after a cour sot" for home, the six men found their plane ablaze 12,000 fect over Germany.
'The crew fought the flames tilt they were exhausted, and then poured coffee "from their flasks on to the inferno, "They finally beat out' the flames with curtains—Reuter,
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