The forty miles between Aleppo and Wadi Omar were soon covered. The wadi, as its name implied, was a shallow valley that had originally been the bed of a river. Running north and south it formed a long, dreary oasis in the wilderness.
Rather than have it appear that the aircraft had come direct from Aleppo, Worrals approached well from the north, and made a straight run over the wadi at a height of about a thousand feet, and then went on, without turning, to create an impression that the Heron was an ordinary service machine engaged on a routine operation. Frecks “fired” the camera at such features as Worrals directed, and in passing took six photographs. Worrals made a careful reconnaissance.
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