BARRAGE BALLOON TAKES TO THE WATER - (Picture issued 1943) Barrage balloons not only fly above large towns but over docks and shipping, busy rivers and waterways. They even go to sea, keeping guard over convoys and river and coastal traffic. Many of the crew of waterborne balloon barges are auxiliaries; men whose enthusiasm for ballooning made it a peacetime hobby. The story of the "NORMAN WADE", a balloon barge, and the crew who work and sleep aboard her on a busy waterway. Out in all weathers and up at all times, theirs is often a lonely life, but they keep the balloon flying. The "NORMAN WA
BARRAGE BALLOON TAKES TO THE WATER - (Picture issued 1943) Barrage balloons not only fly above large towns but over docks and shipping, busy rivers and waterways. They even go to sea, keeping guard over convoys and river and coastal traffic. Many of the crew of waterborne balloon barges are auxiliaries; men whose enthusiasm for ballooning made it a peacetime hobby. The story of the "NORMAN WADE", a balloon barge, and the crew who work and sleep aboard her on a busy waterway. Out in all weathers and up at all times, theirs is often a lonely life, but they keep the balloon flying. The "NORMAN WADE", Royal Air Force
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