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Aviation History
1942
1942 - 1635.PDF
/*"*> I /\^Ajnaintenance crew of a flying-boat base prepare a Sunder- j^f land for its next anti-submarine patrol. Note the airscrew *— U+rfShe in temporary use as a hat-stand. TRAF. IN Air Comdre. E. A. B. Rice, O.B.E., M.C., the Air Officer Commanding, West Africa. WEST AFRICA It's a Tough Life, But They Keep Fit and Cheerful : Petrol-tin Baths and Plenty of Fruit BOMBER raide on Germany, fighter sweeps over the Continental coastline, the twenty-four-hour day vigilance of Coastal Command, and the incessant hammering of Rommel's supply lines in Libya by the Allied Air Forces—these activities of our airmen are in the news daily, but little is ever said of the equally vital work of the R.A.F. at West Africa's coastal stations from which the anti submarine patrols guard our South Atlantic sea routes via the Cape. Yet, remembering the present posi tion in the Mediterranean, the impor tance of this work cannot be exaggerated. Like all aircraft in this and similar parts of the world, this patrolling Hurricane has been " tropicalised " a process which includes the fitting of a special air-intake with Vokes air cleaner. C^A i.srx~7
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