CONGRESSMEN VISIT RAF BOMBER COMMAND STATION - Congressmen, who visited a station of Bomber Command recently, were shown the workings of a rubbe sea dinghy. The sergeant pilot seen in the picture was the second pilot of the Wellington aircraft which, after being hit by flak over Germany and flying for three hours with its incendiary bombs on fire, came down in the sea. Its crew of six were in their dinghy for 57 hours before being washed ashore at Ventnor on the Isle of Wight, Royal Air Force

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