- Contributed by听
- aliburness
- People in story:听
- William Edwards Burness
- Location of story:听
- Kairouan,
- Background to story:听
- Royal Air Force
- Article ID:听
- A2650196
- Contributed on:听
- 19 May 2004
In June 1943, as the wireless operator in a Halifax of 295 Squadron i participated in the tow of unladen Horsa Glider from Hurn in Cornwall thence to Rabat in morocco, a flight of almost 10 hours and on in two stages across Morocco and Algeria to a forward airstrip near Kairouan in Tunisia, a distance of about 2,500 miles.During the flight across the bay of biscay if a combination was intercepted by patroling enemy Ju88s or a long - range FW Condor the only recourse for the Glider pilots was to ditch in the Atlantic therby enabling the halifax to endeavor to eascape.
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