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Wednesday, July 8, 1942 THE FLESHERTON ADVAXCK THE FLESHERTON ADVANCE -:ihli.Khed on Collingwood Street, Fleaherton, Wednesday of each week. Circulation over 1,000. Price in Canada $2.00 pr yr, when paid in advance $1.60; IB U. S. A $2.50 per year, wb i ..,,) in advance $2.00 P. J. MU KS loN. Editor. About Fighting Planes' Bombs and Results of Bombing This week I leave the purely des- criptive to turn to discussion ol a subject that is of particular interest at the present time, and especially to Canadians. What is the Royal Canadian Air Force doing? Before I flew to England, I had the advantage of visiting many of theii training camps in Ontario. Before that I had been up in a number ol planes of quite a wide variety of types starting as far back as 1919, and in- luding everything from a veteran ol the last war to an autogiro. As long ago as 1923, I flew to James Bay in a Vickers Vimy bombing plane of the same type as that in which the first non-stop flight was made across the Atlantic. For that reason, it was not is much like the Trans-Canada pass- enger planes (which are made by the same firm). They are flown across the Atlantic by the Ferry Command. The Bristol Beaufort, a torpedo bomb- er, was in use by the Coastal Com- mand, as well as the Blenheim. The R.A.F. Bomber Command is the busy division now. and has become quite aggressive. Laiger and larger bonubers are being used to carry big- ger loads. Changes heve been so rap- id that the favorite types of bombing planes last October are now more or less out of date. Their places are taken by the huge Halifax, Sterling and other types, which were just com- ing into use when I was in England. I did not see either of these bombing planes, though I almost had a trip through the Halifax factory. Had 1 been there another day or two, 1 might have made it. One of the largest and most pop- ular bombers up to last Fall was the Wellington. Those who saw the mov- ing picture, "Target for Tonight" know what it looks like. It is a huge machine, with a wing span of nearly 90 feet and the body is nearly 60 feet the other officers did. He vacud i the famous Schneider Cup races moiv than ten years ago and won th : cup himself in 1931. These races \v< . high-speed tests with tiny planes, and being sporting events, thoy kept the British on their toes, with the result that the cup nearly always stayed in Britain. Strangely emugh this race probably saved Britain from destruction in 1940 and 1941. They kept British firms building the fast- est and finest planes, and the spitfire and Hurricanes, particularly the form- er, are adaptations of the racing planes of Schneider Cup ^ay. I ate that night in the officers' mess at this R. A. F. station, and brought away the menu, flu suppei was light and the foods wer? the fa- milar foods of wartime England, but on the other side of the minu was the luncheon at noon, and it hd featured the roast beef and Yorkshire pudding I saw only once in England -and that at the private house of a manufactur- er. Food is important in Britain and it is strange how I recall meals after an interval of six or seven months. long, and "fat" in appearance, in con- Kidney is unrationed and so one surprising that the Air Force I was interested overseas. During my stay in England, I had many opportunities to meet members of the R.C.A.F., from Air Commo- dore F. L. Stevenson down. The Air Commodore gave a party one after- noon at the Royal Automobile Club, a Swanky place on Pall Mall, and he invited the leaders of all Canadian Squadrons in England. Most of them wer able to come and I had a chance to listen to them discuss their adven- tures. Several had been decorated by the. King for conspicuous service Often, I see familiar faces in looking over photographs in the newspapers. There has recently been some dis- cussion in Parliament about separat- ing the Canadians overseas in the Air Force from the rest of the R.A.F. This has brought both praise and con. den.nation to Hon. C. G. Power from Canadian papers), depending on whether they belong to the ultra- loyal group or not. But of practical considerations. When I was in Eng- land, there were some 18 all-Canadian Squadrons, the numbers starting at "400."Since then, the number has been increased considerably. It was up to 25 when I last saw figures given out but that was some time ago, and changes have b<J;n kept secret. A great many Canadians are in other R.A.F. units. There seemed to be some differences of opinion among the officers overseas as to whether the Canadians were better mixed in with the R.A.F. or in separate squad- rons. The R.A.F. is (or was) divided into "Commands,' 1 defending on the work done by the various types of aircraft. The Fighter Command uses the small fighting planes, such as the Bupermarine Spitfire and the Hawker Hurricane, both of them one-seater machines, with motors of about one thousand horsepower, driving them at speed up to six. miles a minute That seems incredible. Not so ago, scientists would have insisted that human beings couldn't stand a speed like that. It is that the de- signer of the Hurricane has never been uip in one and he isn't a pilot. There is no room for a passenger. The Spitfire is only 37 feet across the wings and 30 feet in length a tiny plane compared to the bombers. The \vcaknesn of these fighters is that they can remain in the air only three hours and a half, which gives thorn a range of 1200 miles or so but does not allow them to protect the bomb- ers all the way to Germany and hack Some machines of the Fighter Com. mand have two or more of a crew. The Boulton Paul Defiant is no larger than the Spitfire, but 't has a gun turret with a gunner as the second member of the crew. At least one of the faster bombers, the Bristol Blen- heim, is used as a fitfher. The Coastal Command is in charge of patrol work around the coasts, tin search for enemy craft on and under the water, the convoying of ships for the last part of the journey to Brit- ain and .similar tasks. Land planes are used for the most part. The Avro Anson, now used almost entirely for training and quite familiar over our Canadian towns, were originally used almost entirely for Coastal com- mand work. They are now cutdatcd but the first plane I saw in Eng- lish air (after leaving the airport where I landed) was an Avro Anson. The favourite plane of the Coastal Command now seems to be the Am- erican-built Lockheed Hudson. This trast to the extreme leanness of a number of other bonrOers. When it is loaded, it weighs over 13 tons. The body is of an odd basket-work con- struction, said to give great strength, and the chief characteristics is lattice-work windows. Other bombers were the Blenheim, the Bolinbroke, the IHanupden, the Whitley and several others whose names don't come readily to mind The big American bombers, the Con- solidated Liberator and the Boeing Flying Fortress, were not there in large numbers in October and had been used only in aerial raids. I did not see either of them. There is an Army Co-operation Command, which hasn't had much o do except in training, as its business is to be the eyes of the Army during active fighting. It was using the odd gull-winged Lysander planes. No. 400 Canadian squadron was an Army Co. operation unit. As the Lysander is a fairly old model, it has probably been replaced with somothing newer in the meantime. The Fleet Air Arm is attached to apt to find it anywhere, even :n soup I had a little of each kind of meat, for the "coo-au-Gratin" aroused my curiosity. It turned ouc to be cold sliced bologna with cheese in it. That A British Daylight Bombing of Nazi-Controlled War Factory In Occupied France Early in March. lu.J. a .un.:i: lor i,' r at P>i.-s-;y, 1 miles north-west of British bomber at the heifht of the mation of Amcrican,-i.uat Boston i'aiis. Under Nazi pressure, the attack, showing the accuracy of hits aircraft of Britain'.- Bomber Com- factory was producing 20 lorries scored on the factory, mand, made a successful low-level daily for the German army, daylight attack on the Matford fac- Picture shows; The view from a . . the W as, ' think, my first encounter with English wartime sausag . They we'-e amazing things. I ate them once or twice again, in hotels, just to see if they were all as bad as the f'rst ones encountered that nii^'i*,. There was no improvement . Sausat;"s come in three grades, I'm told, and presum- ably these were all of th; best grade. The grades are 40, 50 and 10, that being the percentage of meat in it, but I always doub;-i it. The rest of t'.i? percent age i- s;iJ to be bread, but <Kain I had icy 'loubts. It wasn't thf. the saumges tasted bad: they I. -In i. They r niplv didn'* t*te &' nil They might have been ground up blot- paper, put into skins and fried But the dessert and the coffee were good and the cheese excellent. The boys at the Bomber Station are under a continuous nervous strain They live among the greatest thrills in the world when they are out on a At a Bomber Station The Canadian editors .spent one the Navy. It had no contact with us. I job with the anti-aircraft shelh bursting in puffs around them and the need to watch continu ally for an attack by fighter planes, while look- ing all the time for their targets. It had been the intention to have the Canadian editors sec the bombers go out. then have a few hours' sleep, and get up in time to see them come back. It didn't turn out that way that night. There was a bit of fog and op- erations were cancelled. Word had gone around betfore we a<rrived that the flight was "off" and so tension had relaxed. One officer bold me that when the boys are all keyed up and then, at the last minute the trip is cancelled, it's hard to keep discipline. He said all kinds of stunts are pulled off. One night, a couple of pilots drove their little Austin car in the front door and around the halls. evening at a Bomber Station up in the central part of the East Coast of Eng- land. It gave me something of a thrill to dr've along the Great North Road. The name itself is interesting but the thrill came from memories of the book, "The Good Companions" and from passing through the Robin Hood country. It seemed that every few minutes, that famous road passed an airdrome of the Bomber Command. There was no particular attempt at concealment from the road, whatever there may have been from the air. Many dif- ferent types of bombers were to be seen out in the open. The driver of our automobile had a son in the Bomb- er Command. He had never visited his station but he had me keep a look- out after we pacced a certain town, to see the first drome using Welling- tons, and was greatly pleased when we found the place, though he didn't suggest stopping. Well up the road, our little proces- sion of cars passed through the home town of Sir Isaac Newton, with his statue in the square, and on out to- wards the coast, along winding roads, following a motorcycle guide. The fields were full of plane traps al- ways a sign that one is approaching some place of importance. There was a tiny hamlet at last, and three or four miles beyond that down a road that wasn't much more than a lane, bordered by hedge*, we came to the bomber station. In the hangars near by were the big bombers, Handley Page Hamip- dens. The Hampden is deceptive in its appearance, particularly from the front. The body is extremely narrow, i OIIMM 'opiA\ ueui-auo in a long narrow line to the tail. It is hard to believe that it carries a crew of four and weighs more than nine tons when loaded. The wing spread is about 70 feet. There are two aircooled motors and twin rud- ders. For a bomber it has a high speed of 205 miles an hour, or over four miles a minute, and it can stiy in the air for right hours and a h-.ilf, flyiiiR over 1700 miles. The living quarters were comfo't- aible. and the lounge room where we were greeted might be called luxuri- ous. Over the mantel at one em! wa? a big painting of the Hampden, pre- sented by Mr. Handley Pag: him.-wlf. There were chesterfields and padded chairs and a radio. A few Canadians were amoni? the officers, the only one from around this part of Ontario being Pilot Offic- er J. G. Spiprs of Bmssolls Ontnr'o The Station Ccwnmander v.'as Captain Boothmnn. He didn't tell us anything ab-nit himself, bu^ s Summer Time Table Effective Friday, June 26, 1942 LEAVE FLESHERTON TO TORONTO c 10:10 a.m. d 7:45 p.m. TO OWEN .SOUND c 6.30 p.m. 9=00 p.m. b Friday only c Saturday only, d Sunday & Holidays. (Eastern Daylight Saving Time) GREY COACH LINES WAR SAVINGS STAMPS i FROM . BANKS POST OFFICES DIPARTMINT STORES DRUGGISTS GROCERS TOBACCONISTS OOK STORES ond olh.i RET All STORES VANDELEUR Hon. F. R. Oliver was the guest speaker at a meeting of .he Farm Forum held in the school house on Monday evening of last week. He gave a very interesting account of the work of the welfare department, which has charge of '"relief," Old Age Pensions, Mothers' Allowance Children's Aid, etc. He also answer- ed many question. . and a lively dis- cussion took place on municipal health services, the Federation of Agriculture, etc. The speaker was tendered a vote of thanks, on motion of F. Davis and D. McGee. H. I. Graham presided. Congratulations and best wishes t. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Warren (nee Wil- ma Cargoe), who were recently married at the parsonage in Mark- dale by Rev. S. E. Annis. A recep- tion was afterward held at the 'omc of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cargoe. They will reside in To- ronto. The new pastor, Rev. CaswellT oc- cupied the pulpit in the church or Sunday aftei^ioon and (preached ;; splendid sermon to a large congre- gation. Miss Anderson of Toronto is holi- daying at the home of Lundy Johnston. Miss Genevieve Milne of Flesher- ton spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Buchanan and famdly. Mr. John Boland was home from Weston over the week end. Mrs. Alex. Gilvray spent Army Week with her hudband at Camp Borden and family of H. J. Thomp- son of Cundles, near Rarrie. The Jackson boys of Toronto rend- ered music on the violin and organ at the Sunday School service, which was much enjoyed. Mrs. Velma Armstrong and daugh- ter, Maizie, of Ravenna are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Fawcett and Mrs. W. J. F. Hutchinson. Miss Myrtle Fawcett, Mrs. Allan Shaw and Mr. Abercrombie of Thorn- bury spent a day recently with Mrs. W. J. F. Hutchinson and Paulino. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie MeM<ullen and family and Mrs. Mary McMullen of KimbiTley, and Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hoggard and son, Ashley, of Ra- venna were recent visitors at the Fawcett home. Mr. H. J. Thompson and Mr. H. Ferrier of Cundles spent a day with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. W. Bowiman and Betty and Miss Joan Cavell of Tara visited recently with Mrs. W. "J. F. Hutchinson and Pauline. Mr. and Mrs. Clive Dolan and Mary of Flesherton, who are moving to Toronto soon, attended church service here on Sunday afternoon, and spent the evening with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Graham. Mr. Jim Cargoe, who has been buzzing a number of wood piles for farmers in the district during the past week or two, was struck in the face with a pole at H. Graham's bee t caused a very severe swelling on his cheek and one eye was blackened and colored for a few days. CEYLON Mr. and Mrs. Roy Piper motored Trooper Milford Piper to Camp Bor- den on Sunday, after enjoying his extended leave. Miss Mary Muir of Toronto is vis- iting with her brother, Mr. A. S. Muir, and Mrs. Muir. Messrs. Grant Muir and Allan Cam eron attended the McCuaig picnic at Harrison Park, Owen Sound, Satur- day, where their bagpipe selections were among the highlights. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stewart and two sons of Toronto are spending the summer vacation with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Stewart. I Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Stewart ar.d j John of Toronto spent last week with the former's parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Lomas, Toronto, wei a week end visitors with Mrs. Jos. Oliver and Mr. Bob Oliver. Mise Marion Muir is home from Lair'worth for the summer vacation, aft.r spending a week visiting with fri nd= i:i B-jrrie. L.A.C. Dick Stewart and his bride the former Marion MilLr. -V-'U tlu week end with his parents before leaving on Monday for Toronto. Miss Vea-na Kennedy of Toron-t' spe:it the week end with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. Don Porter, Toronto, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. McDerniM. Mrs. George Jaynes, Toronto, is spending a couple of weeks here. Misses Jean Collinson and Gladys Carmichael of Owen Sound were home for the holiday. Mrs. Roy Piper and Sherman spent Monday in Toronto. Mrs. Harry Beach, Buffalo. N.Y., is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. C. Muir Ma. ter Kenneth Muir is at Woodside Lod're, Orangeville, for a week. Mr. Melville Hunt, Preston, i visit- inc: his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Percy Hunt arJ his grandfather, Mr. Geo. Arr w?rr-.ith, fr a wetk. Mr. Albert Arrowsmith of Niagara Falls is also a guest. Mis.. V/.'ojr of Kimberley has bee engaged as teacher at Ceylon Public School. Newspaper advertising is tho cheapest and best. Subscribe to The Advance $1.50 per year ARLY CLOSING E r The following merchants are clos- ing their places of busines at 7 pjn. 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