The Brussels Post, 1942-2-4, Page 3rilz BRUSSELS POST
From These Operations One Of Our
Fighter Planes Failed To Return
This article describing a trip t
Great Britain, written by Hug
Templin of the Fergus ,News.Recor
representing the ,Canadian Werkl
Newspapers AssocIatIon. He wa
a guest of the British Council whit
in England.
o appearances in the window, but
h doubted if that helped much,
d Visiting a Fighter Squadron
3,
s Number 402 Royal uanadian Air
e Force Fighter Ssuadron• was station-
ed not Car peen k,ast Coast in these
days•. The huildings. were more than
comfortable, "Luxurious" 'Iridia be at
I better word The e,ffieera were in
what was probably a new brlek'
,sclero S commissioned officers and
•sergeants were quartered in country
houses nearby, one of them owned
tau
the far pant by Anis Boelyn, one
Of the wives at Henry VII.
Because we were late and the first
of the Hurricanes, waa due at any
moment, the Station Corrt¢naneer etre
hie address of welcome short and we
drurried out to the lending field, A
Plight Lieutenant was, waiting for
ane and after asking my name, took'
me to meet a group from Ontario—
Plight Lieut. R. 11, Burnett of Dur-
ham
urOram; the Medical Meer, Pilot Offi-
cer Jimmy Thompson: of •Listowel
and Ian Stewart from my own town
of Fergus.
As, we talked, tire that two Hurri-
canes carne tearing In, I had never
,seen one at close range while in the
air. I knew that they were tiny little
:planes, but their.speed took the
breath away. They dived down over
the field, waved 'their wings and
were away to the west, tanning into
the( wind, wind landing at 90 miles• an
hour or so. There is no room in the
plane for anyone but the pilot, The
first landing be. makes, In a ILarrt-
cente oa• a Spitfire must he life's
greatest theta.
The two Huericanee were followed
bp. a .Spitfire, no larger but with oval
wings, and some slight defferenaes, In
contour, tit belonged to an, R.A.P.
•squadran farther month and had come
in for mon fuel to take it Orome.
Ale the third and fourth Hurricanes
dived low in statute one of my friends
said: "That's Ooribett and MoOlusky.
They've both been in action,"
WoOdered bow she knew, but as
they taxied in, I could see for myself
The cloth that covens, each o,f the
twelve machine one had •been shot_
'off. Their guns. had b.eeno- fired.
They led me over to meet Squ•ad-
roai Leader Coribett as he climbed out
of hie, plane,
"You've been in a fight " ...
Iie d4dar't seem excited.
"Yes," he said. "The air was full
of Mess,eirsolenttt 109's today. We
met them two or three at a tune, all
the way.
,Squadron, Leader Cotrbeitt comes
tout Monteal, He heci been in fights
before. Iles, story had all lire acme
nese of an, official report. The all-
Canadieu. Squadron ,had escorted
bonebens to Mazingarbe, where there
is, a power statism and chemical
plant. They tact reached their
objective when they were attacked
by 109's. He got in a buret at one
of them and 'Sergeant McClnsky,
coaniog behind him, had finished it
off. He did not know if .any R.C,A.F.
planes, had been lost but he gaw non
Before leaving Canada, to fly the
Atlantic to Lisbon and Dnglaud,
had visited many of the .training
centres and soOroole in Outario
eonineoted with the British Common, -
wealth Air Training ,plan. I had
followed the young imem • through
their courses of training here and
wee pa.rtieularly anxious t� see
threat on active isrervice in England.
It was a beautiful, bright, sunny
mourning about the end of September
when 2 left London in a car provid-
ed by tote British Council. The car
was new and 9apable of doing 90
miles' an hour on a broad voad. The
driver was interesting, He had
acted as a chauffeur for the British
Gbbelmnremt officiate for years.
When Ramsay MacDonald was
.Prime Minister, this men, had' driven
his car. He knew London and Its
suburbs like a book.
We headed for the East Coast, the
last ear in a group of four, each of
which flew a Canadian, ensign over
the• radiator. 1 sat in the broad
back seat with a large. tale map on
my knee, In doing so, I probably �
broke some of the most ,stringent
negulatious in wartime England, but
the map had beengiven to me by an
officer at the 'Canadian Asttny Head-
quarters the day before, aro I took a
chance, With its, aid; I was able
to trace oar course :accurately
there is 510 •other wary in England
now. Every signpost and ,piece
name between London and the
coast Imo been deliberately obliter
ated.
Lost in Rural En•gland
Perhaps it was just us well that I
had the neap. The driven's knew the
city, but as we got away from main
roads and approached a swampy por-
tion of 'the coast, they got lost, I had
noticed, the leading car take a wrong
tura, in a busy town but our driver
had to follow till the leader decided ,
he was lost. Then the Wrap cane In
handy, We rained at a city on tore
Thames estuary only a few minutes
late for lunobean, -
011ie owner of that big seaside
hotel gave us a royal welcome Over
the stairway leading to the dining
room, luta had a huge Caneclien flag.
Asi we walked utpeitairs, the •sbatrs of
"0 Canada" carne from a side room.
a The City Fatheusi carne around
after the luwiheou• and requested
that we give item a few minutes of
our time. They had a. drive on to
align up women Teenutts, for wee
work. We went to the recruiting
centre, where a loud ,epeeker over
the door blared continually and girls
sat inside the plate glass windows
assembling wireless transmitters.
Some of us made brief ¢tensonad
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The Purchase of Sugar is
Now Regulated by Law
s A prudent precaution, the quantity of sugar which may lawfully be consumed
in any household is now restricted by law to an amount of three-quarters of
one pound per person per week, and it, is now unlawful to purchase more than two
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trouble. ,
Conversation After (Battle
The fourth Hurricane had pulled
lav alongside anOl the pilot was
climbing out. Hie gums, had been
wield, and as ,two o10 the ground Drew
helped pian out, I heard htsi voice, all
excited. I was In.tracliuced ,to Ser-
gean,t George 1V1'oOlusky of Maitland
Lake.
"I know the editor of your home
paper and other People in Kirkland
Lake," I said, "all he reporting ear
the Northern News when I go bank,
Have you • al stony for me?"
Bad One, a story? That was, all that
was nepeesary, I listened as, this Our
tario boy gave me a ,flrs,t•Ihand story
of an. air 'rattle that had been fought
len than. ate hour before, It was his
Rest fight and he had won, 1 never
saw a ,more pleased or a teited yeah.
He was, flying just .behind and
allomge4de tiro Squadron Leader about
110000 feet tip, probocting the bomb-
ers, down below, dropping their egge
in Mozinganbe, Tice Gannon tame
sit uncut .foam above, out tar the nun,,
'They opened nap ,their formation.
Corbett :peeling off to the left and he
to, the right, "jalert exeaily like In
practice," Tote Gentian, missed theta
trout. Thee Squadron Leader got in
iiia shots first and them he, McOlusicy
finished the Mesa,easeeniett. He saw it
go deevnl with a long train of smoke
behind it, Just above the clouds,
he slaw the German pilot jump• loose
and float down with his, parachute.
He was glad of ,that. He didn't waaut
to kill the Gelman pilot; not the
first time anyway.
I could have listened to more of
lits entllvttslaa,tic details, but some of
the other chaps in the squadron. be-
gan to make rude remarks, Appar-
ently ou,t ieav't expected to give inti-
mate details of a light like this to an'
outsdder who happens to come along,
At first their jibes didn't register,
but at last they penetrated and Ser-
geant Pilot MaClusiky left me to go
and put In his official report.
. The other 1Surrieanes were coming
in one or two together. Nearly' all
had been in, action. The mem, on the
grio.uadi mentally tallied thein off, At
]asst
temp were all in but one, pilot
Otfiicer Grahean Was, absent. •
One Plane Didn't Return I+t
There was, an ale of anxiety, but
not without hope. Quito often, fighter
Planes run short of fuel and tome In
j dome other dmome tearer prate,
We would go to have testi by that
time, he would probably join us.
We drove aiouud the field, past
the Hurricanes, already dragged info
their pits. Announcers, were scramb-
ling over therm, removing the empty
cartridge, belts and replacing them
with, fresfn ones, full of long lines of
glistening bullet noses. Medbanics
were going over the =toms and
refuelling. 00 au alarm carne; those
Em,r1icaniee, would be ready to take
the air again. If bombe dropped.
nothing but direct hits would dam-
age therm.
The Commander showed me to his
own bedroom, with, a gltateneng mod-
ern baths in, the next moan. This • was
ant old houe,e, recently modernized by
a wealthy oiwssar. In front, roses In
long beds; curved around the drive,
At the back, vegetables grew be-
tween the rows of dwarf apple trees.
W'e'd sat dement to tea ata long table
in, the dining -room. I ansrovea•ed, quetw•
Biomes: about the training in Canada
and they told; me about the way the
fire power of dile Htuttiet100101 was bee
lag stepped up, They were lnterested
in the Clipper flight aortae the A,t•
to tics I was interested in these Men
who live, dangerously,day to day.
Elver few Minutes, the nolle of a
pasting ,planet caused do5neelie to
rush .to the long French wind -1'
but always there would be a
of the head. The Pilot Otficeit
side me showed me a picture liat
Ofdar Graham. 'A damn geed 1t
he remarked. Graham's, home w
in, the Maritimes; it seemroed.
But there was hope, Plenty
planes lauded at other airdromes
refuel. Flying over Elegised, you si
one of them every three or four mi
utes.
Bence. I came Roane, I read a lett
from any friend in: 402 Fighter Squ:
iron. They have movednot- and 1
new queartens are not se contorts*
Tc tnrem went tibe honor of testi
the new dive-bomlbing Hurricat
with 12 gonat and a bomb under ea
Wing. Phey had been seteeeslsl
Pilot (Meer eleahaan Stever• ea'
back. He has been listed as n0esi'
Sgt, PIlot MoOloskcy was badly '
jurd while snaking a landing in E
land, He died hi the hospital, Oise
the other offlcena I met emailed, 1
a elite In Ranee while trying out •,
dive bombe 1•
Ot le some thus slice prime 1s1
islet Waniston COnuretrdli said it, hu
ie 00111 as true as, even: "Never
fore wee tee Mitch rived by •so ns
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