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1944
1944 - 0853.PDF
APRIL 2/TH, I944 1H E R E AND THERE attend. Further information can be got from the Secretary, 356/366, Oxford Street. W.i, Where to Escape From SWEDISH legal experts have decided that as Denmark is not technically a belligerent country, Allied airmen who have escaped from there to Sweden will be treated as civilian refugees and will not be interned. A number of U.S. air men who recently baled out over Den mark and, with Danish help, escaped by l>oat to Sweden are the first to get the benefit of this decision. Any suggestion that this was meant to offset Sweden's continuing to export ball bearings to Germany would no doubt be officially disclaimed in Stockholm. New Glasgow A.T.C. Commander WING COMMANDER E.,,V. N. BELL has been appointed area comman der for Glasgow and the SQ6^[ Area of the Air Training of Wing Commander Al#h/W9RaT£ who recently underwent an Jmp&tion and is posted " non-efieo*i^fe*» sick " pending another appointiflWt. ^Ving Commander Wallace cemflwiftdled this area for two instituted air-sea lining on Lojch Lomond. ; Commander Bell served for many years with No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron and was in an operational command until his present appointment. Prediction L ATEST prediction on post-war air activity in America, at the mome of writing, comes from Mr. Earl Lot] manager of the Research and S^mstical "Department of th& Chamber of Cormm«ce pressed the vie^l tha lines would buy U-BOAT HUNTERS : A U.S. Navy blimp flies over the "baby flat-top," H.M.S. Tracker on escort duty. We would rather be aboard the carrier in any argument with a surfaced " sub." craft within two years of hostilities ceas ing. These would cost $512,500,000, which is roughly ^128,000,000. Contrast this with the 350 aircraft operated by U.S. commercial airlines before the war. Fighting Film Star C INEMA-GOING admirers of film-star James Stewart will be interested to know that he is now Major Stewart, U.S.A.A.F., and, until a recent transfer to^fhe post of Group Operations Officer, as a squadron commander in the 8th Air Force here\ He has flown on eleven daylight attacks^ on Germany, leading his Liberator Group on most of them. Even in his new supervisory position he remaffison flying status and will lead s uiftt««*Tto ccjnibat as often as his e duties permit. CUSTOMARY PRECAUTIONS : These gent of " other ranks "to be accepted -% tionary lifeboat drill on members of the W.A.A.F., the first contin- for service overseas, go through a precau- embarkation—just in case. Unanswerable ? W HEN Mr. Attlee, Deputy Prime Minister, told Sir Oliver Simmonds in the House recently that there was no question of removing civil aviation from the care of the Air Ministry during the war, Sir Oliver asked him if he was aware that, during the debate on the Air Esti mates, the House was unanimous that this step should be taken, and would he see that the Government gave it thorough and early consideration. There was no further reply. Bouquet from USA. B RITONS will blush with traditional modesty at the glowing tribute paid to the R.A.F. in the April 1st issue of The New York Times. Saluting the R.A.F. on its 26th birth day, this influential U.S. newspaper says, " All the world that values freedom salutes it. For to it goes the credit for having saved the flame of liberty in the British Isles when everywhere else in Europe it was being extinguished by the flood of modern barbarism." Adding that it no longer stands alone but has the American Air Force at its side, the paper concludes its handsome acknowledgment with, "The spark that has kindled into the consuming flame of opposition was kept alive by the R.A.F. in Britain's finest hour." Reverse Lend-lease AMERICAN air aid to Britain has been given great publicity, and this has somewhat overshadowed our own aid to the U.S.A.A.F., but the following figures show that it is quite considerable. Up to June, 1943, some 775 Spitfire Vs and IXs had been supplied .for service here and abroad, while other items in cluded 32,000,000 gallons of aviation and transport fuel, 2,000 large vehicles, 21,000 bicycles for airfield personnel (23,000 more are to be delivered), 4.862 rubber dinghies with equipment, 4,000,000 rounds of ammunition, and 32,000 bombs. All oxygen is supplied, as well as radio, electrical and photographic equipment. Instruments, and clothing for both air and ground crews are also included.
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