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English: Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron Leader Leonard Birchall, the "Saviour of Ceylon", aboard a Catalina aircraft before being shot down and captured near the island of Ceylon by the Japanese in 1942. Before being shot down, Birchall warned of a Japanese attack on Ceylon.
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Source http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/v2/nr-sp/index-eng.asp?id=8191
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