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Old 19th Dec 2022, 17:05
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Originally Posted by India Four Two
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ASN has the listing thus:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/166153

Interestingly, 692 was a "Fellowship of the Bellows" Sqdn . . . their 31 Mossies 'paid for' - in part - by supporters in Argentina!
The FOTB was created after an idea of collecting funds - to 'support the war effort' had been thought up by members of the British/Anglo Argentine Community in a Buenos Aires bar!
You paid a monthly subscription [whatever was affordable] and joined the 'Fellowship'! Money donated was sent to the Ministry of Aircraft Production.
It became a runaway success with new branches of the 'Fellowship' soon appearing in most other S. American countries.
More history here.

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