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Re: BOAC Mosquito G-AGGG
Alex,
I believe these Mosquitoes took out newspapers and letters and brought back ball-bearings and people. It was called the 'Ball-Bearing Run".
Stubbington's 'Kept In The Dark' on page 68 refers to an undated letter (probably from March 1942) in AIR 40/1814, F/130/26. It was sent from MEW to Sec of State (Air), recording the purchase from Sweden of ball bearings to the value of £1 million in order to deny them to Germany and supplement UK stocks. This was part of BC's cunning plan to end the war by destroying Schweinfurt and within it FAG Kugelfischer.
Tony
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