United Kingdom - Ireland
Jan. 01, 1970 - Group Captain Cheshire leaves for Airport: Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, left this afternoon for London Airport. HE had set a deadline for this afternoon in a private relief airlift to save the starving Biafrans. If no agreement is reached between government by four o'clock today then we intend to fly. he said. We have about 20 DC4s and DC6s and Super Constellations standing by at Libreville, in Gabon, and at the island of Sac Tome, and we have a team of willing pilots of mixed nationalities ready to fly them. I will fly myself, if needed. We are all waiting for the word Go'. Photo Shows Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, seen leaving his London office for the airport today
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