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Seth's Book report, Going Solo

By detaves913@student.elanco.org
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    Roald Dahls Dangerous adventures

  • Autumn 1938 SS Mantola

    Autumn 1938 SS Mantola
    The British Ship called the SS Mantola was Carrying Roald Dahl from England to Africa (The beginning of his adventure)

  • June 1939 The Green Mamba

    June 1939 The Green Mamba
    A large snake has entered into an Englishman's house, Roald Dahl was present because he had been invited for a sundowner.

  • Flying Training

    Flying Training
    Roald Dahl got into his Ford prefect and started a 600 mile journey from Der es Salaam to Nairobi to enlist in the RAF
    Photo from rafbf.org

  • Roald Dahl Catches malaria

    Roald Dahl Catches malaria
    No exact date to this, Sunday, No month date
    Wednesday night he went to bed with terrific headache and a temperature of 103* fahrenheit. The next day it went up to 104 and on friday was the highest with a temp of 105 degrees.

  • Der es Salaam, FRiday

    Der es Salaam, FRiday
    At 1:15 PM on sunday the alarm was given that the war had started, at the time Roald Dahl was out guarding a road down the south coast.

  • First Solo

    First Solo
    For the first time Roald Dahl was allowed to fly solo(no instructor to tell him how to fly)

  • Roald's letter to his mother, Alexandria

    Roald's letter to his mother, Alexandria
    About 8 1/2 weeks ago Roald crashed his plane and got seriously injured, only now he is finally telling his mom. Photo from warfarehistory.com

  • The battle of Athens

    The battle of Athens
    The dates are actually April 17, 18, 19, and 20. Roald Dahl went up in his plane(The Hurricane) a total of 12 times during that four day period. April 17 He went up three times and they found that they had lost 2 sergeants and their aircraft while the battle, the 18 he went up only twice, then he had to go up three times the next day, and on the last day April 20th he went up four times because the battle was at its end soon.
    photo is from ww2wrecks.com

  • Roald Dahl's aerial battle at Greece

    Roald Dahl's aerial battle at Greece
    Roald Dahl and a hand full of his comrades went against half of the royal German air force, and they were soon in retreat for the landing strip. Once they touched down they quickly covered their planes with olive branches to camouflage to hide them away.

  • Haifa Palestine

    Haifa Palestine
    Roald Dahl has been flying for an extended time for the last 3 days, at least 7 hours every day. It doesn't tell me how long he has been doing it so there's nothing more I can tell.
    Photo From en.wikipedia.org