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1933
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FLIGHT, NOVEMBER 23, 1933 GUARDING THE TAIL : This composite photograph shows a rear gunner in the tail of a Vickers " Vir ginia " ready for any attacks by enemy fighters. (FLIGHT Photos.) NO. Sol (ULSTER) (BOMBER) SQUADRON By MAJOR F. A. de V. ROBERTSON, V.D. ONCE upon a time, so tradition says, two Irish chieftains in their boats were racing for the shore, some shore in what is now the Province of Ulster. The piece of land which they were approaching seems to have been very desirable, and anyway each wanted to obtain it for himself. The rule of those days was that in the case of unclaimed land the man who first touched the soil could claim it as his own. The chiefs urged their boatmen to pull hard, and a really spirited boat race was in progress. As the boats drew near to the land, one of them shot ahead, and it seemed likely that the chief in that boat would be the first to leap A LINE-UP : Six Vickers Virginia" night bombers (twin Napier "Lions") of No. Squadron at Aldergrove Aerodrome. (FLIGHT Photo.) 1165 502 (Ulster) (Bomber) B
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