CANADIAN AIRMEN ATTACKED A U-BOAT AFTER ONLY THREEMINUTES OPERATIONAL FLIGHT - Sergeant Victor Miettinen of Hudson Bay Road, Ontario, who left his native Finland as a boy to go to Canada and is now a Canadian citizen probably holds Coastal Command's record for "first blood". He sighted and attacked a U-boat after flying on patrol for only three minutes on his first operational flight. (Picture issued 1943), Royal Air Force

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