Show Bombers Flying Sea Outrun Nazi Planes Yankee Pilot Says Flights i Are Tiring to Men lU en DUNCAN American OKLA OKLA American pi pilots pi- pi pilots lots flying bombers to Britain have escaped destruction by German warplanes patrolling far out in the Atlantic by simply outrunning them This account of the dangers en en- encountered encountered encountered countered by fliers ferrying unarmed un un- unarmed unarmed armed planes from Canadian to English air bases was related here hereby hereby hereby by Capt Wood C. C Rogers an Oklahoma Okla Okla- Oklahoma Oklahoma homa pilot who has been employed by the British in the ferrying pro pro- gram Sometimes the Nazis have a re re- reception reception re- re reception committee waiting said Rogers on a visit here One time they met us way over the Atlantic We carried no armament and no guns but we left those gentlemen behind and just outran them German patrols are not the only dangers he revealed Sometimes the British mistake the planes for enemy craft The flights are tiring to the fliers Rogers said The trip across nor nor- normally normally normally mally requires 11 hours but it takes 11 days to return by boat During his brief visits in England Rogers learned of tricks the British had played on German air raiders There was an airport near London Lon Lon- London London don that was bombed regularly he said The Nazis are methodi methodi- methodical cal If they bomb you Tuesday of this week they come back the same day next week So the English built a dummy airport out in a swamp They put up towers and blinker beacons and arranged a long wire down which a light could be allowed to slide slowly just like a plane landing Sure enough the Germans Germ ns bombed it Then they came back and bombed it some more and now they tell me thanks to the Nazis that swamp is being drained and soon will be good farmland o |