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Old 3rd May 2016, 11:26
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There is tale to be told about two Vengeance pilots who were on a target towing detail at the RAAF base at Tocumwal in NSW. There are buried in the cemetery there having died in an accident. Or was it? There was at the time some shady business going on at Toc in 1944 with the war by now far away from the Australian mainland. There were many instances of sabotage going on around the aerodrome in the dead of the night. The CO of the base, if the hearsay stories can be believed , knew beyond all shadow of doubt, the two men who were responsible. He then took matters into his own hands . He detailed the two culprits for target towing, in the course of which they were 'accidentally' shot down.
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