ROME--The 25-hour Italian air patrol over the straits of Sicily was credited tonight with capturing Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd, the highest ranking British officer taken prisoner so far in the war.
Boyd's plane was forced down by Italian fighters which intercepted it near Sicily enroute to Cairo, where Boyd was to become second in command of the Royal Air Force in the Middle East. The Air Ministry in London confirmed the capture.
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