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Show Rebuilds Radio on Ferry PJane Despite Injury LONDON. Despite the fact that the blood was flowing freely from his injured hand, Alexander Sutton, 19 years old, of Glasgow, a wireless operator on board an American bomber being ferried to Britain, dismantled dis-mantled his radio when it broke down and reassembled it unaided. The bomber was about halfway across the North Atlantic when the radio went wrong. It was midnight, mid-night, and there was little light by which to make repairs. Knowing that the captain of the plane depended on getting wireless bearings, Sutton decided to dismantle disman-tle the whole set. He had memorized the blueprint and he started in almost pitch darkness dark-ness to carry out the difficult task. After two and a half hours, he got the set going again, but the captain cap-tain was astonished to see the boy saturated in blood. He had gashed his hand while dismantling the set, and the fact that the bomber had been flying at over 20.000 feet had caused the blood to spurt freely from the wound |