On This Day - 29 July 1940

HMAS DURRAWEEN, (auxiliary minesweeper), was commissioned. HMAS STUART, (destroyer), picked up the pilot of a Gladiator fighter from HMS EAGLE, (aircraft carrier), in the central Mediterranean. The fighter shot down an Italian bomber, but exhausted her petrol and crashed into the sea.

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