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Show ) Bombers Flying Sea Outrun Nazi Planes Yankee Pilot Says Flights Are Tiring to Men. DUNCAN, OKLA. American pilots pi-lots Hying bombers to Britain have escaped destruction by German warplanes patrolling far out in the Atlantic by "simply outrunning" them. This account of the dangers encountered en-countered by fliers ferrying unarmed un-armed planes from Canadian to English air bases was related here by Capt. Wood C. Rogers, an Oklahoma Okla-homa pilot who has been employed by the British in the ferrying program. pro-gram. "Sometimes the Nazis have a reception re-ception 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 normally nor-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-don that was bombed regularly," he said. "The Nazis are methodical. methodi-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 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." |