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Aviation History
1943
1943 - 0711.PDF
MARCH I8TH, 1943 FLIGHT 287 Help in Malta The Army Lends a Hand to Keep the ~R.A.F. Flying 2. A group of Army gunners at the'r gun position on a disused mill. 4. Fitting fins and loading" dollies " at the bomb store. I. Soldiers manhandling a Bristol Beaufighter to its dispersal pen. 3. Helping armourers to rearm a Spitfire with drums of shell ammu- nition. 5. To conserve petrol the Army travel by bicycle to and from their duties at dispersal points. Many lorry miles are thus saved. Nl. Making blast-proof pens out of empty four-gallon patrol tins. "Filled with earth or sand these make excellent building -kncks. 7. Backing a tropicalised Spitfire V into its dispersal pen. All through the most difficult times when Malta was being heavHy strafed the Army has been most generous in its help to the R.A.F.
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