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...CROYDON Roy Alexander, aviation expert, just back from two months with the American Air Forces in England...
Paddy Finucane also had a lot of luck. His plane had been badly shot up only once. He limped for awhile, but not from enemy bullets: he fell off a wall at Croydon, while celebrating an R.A.F. victory...
...hazy afternoon in 1937 a low-wing monoplane dropped on Croydon Aerodrome, London, in a landing which Aeroplane described as "the bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls...
Werra parachuted into British hands last September when his Messerschmitt was shot down over Croydon Airport. Interned in Hyde Park, the 26-year-old airman was surprised while burrowing his way out, shipped off to a Scottish prison camp. There he promptly escaped again, was picked up after six days when he tried to board a boat for Eire...
...army soon took charge of me, gave me a drink and some lunch and drove me back to Croydon...