Originally Posted by
A30yoyo
owned by KLM (full name in Dutch), Horseferry House, Horseferry Rd, London SW.1.
That was, of course, the BOAC head office.
By making the NAZIs look fools, he would have been extremely unpopular with them to say the least, so they could have been targetting him.
One of thousands, for the entire media industry did this. Even The Beano had all their children's cartoon characters join up and give the Nazis their just deserts !
was navigation without radar easier by day, or perhaps to avoid being shot down at either end if misidentified in the dark?
If nothing else, the BBC long wave transmitter at Droitwich will get you to within about 60 miles of Whitchurch. This was the radio service used to transmit hidden messages to spies etc across Europe, mixed in with normal programmes. A middle of the night departure from Lisbon, turning east from close to the Irish coast at sunrise, would be reasonable.