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572 FLIGHT NOVEMBER 2QTH, 1945 RED HERRINGS FOR LUFTWAFFE spared many hundreds of bombs intended for it. Cardifi's Starfish drew off 150 bombs in one night, and the Navy's decoys were particularly successful at Plymouth, Ports- mouth and on the Humber. Middlesbrough was another example of Starfish success, and it is of passing interest, in this case, that it was operated by the civilian staff of the vast I.C.I, works. Good black-out discipline and the efficiency with which the local N.F.S. put out any fires in the real target area were other vital factors in the degree of success achieved by the Starfish. Finding suitable sites for decoys was not easy. Undue risk to isolated houses, farms and small villages had to be avoided, and also undue interference with agriculture.- A special department of the Home Office had to be set up to see that decoys were not sited on land wanted for new factories or other vital purposes. Farmers and other rural people, on many of whom decoy crews were billeted, must have known what it all meant, yet there were few com- plaints and almost no "leakage of information." Imme- diate compensation was paid if cattle or sheep were killed, and it is remarkably satisfactory that in a total of 730 recorded attacks on decoys, there were only four cases where casualties occurred to people living in the neighbour- hood. "CIVILISED" SUNDER LAND Argentina, the first of the four civil-version Short Sunder- lands ordered by the Dodero shipping line, left for Buenos Aires last week with Senor Dodero and eleven other passen- gers. The engines are 1,250 h.p. Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasps but the most noticeable external difference is the ' Sandringham "-type nose. Under the exterior view of Argentina is seen the top deck, looking aft. Furnished as a cocktail lounge in light blue and cream, it has 17 seats with folding tables. At the top of the stairs is (top left) a mahogany-finished cocktail bar. The lower deck seats 28, in four compartments, one of which is seen in the bottom left photograph. (Bottom right) : On the flight deck. Standing is Capt. Dudley Travers, D.F.C., of B.O.A.C, and with him is the 2nd pilot and navigator, Wing Cdr. N. B. Littlejohn, O.B.E. They are wearing the Dodero Company's uniform. Mr. Geoffrey Tyson, Short Bros.' chief test pilot, was also on the trip. Natal. 4,590 miles on the 7,330-mile route, was reached in 251 hours flying time.
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