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1944
1944 - 1108.PDF
575 FLIGHT. JUNE IST IQ44 THE To What (Naval) Base Uses THE Martin Marauder is now in service with the U.S. Navy, who call it the'JM-il This version is being used as a target tug at the Noifolk Naval Base, Viiginia. The Setting Sun VICE-ADMIRAL AUBREY w. FITCH, formerly commander of air craft in the South Pacific, recently said that though the Jap air force was not running away, it was now definitely on the defensive. India Air Routes ACCORDING to a ten-year plan for Indian aviation, the Government is to take over R.A.F. airfields as requited after the war. The India Office stated that 75 airfields would be provided at a cost of £12,000,000. Aircraft Outputs RECENTLY issued production figures from across the Atlantic show that Canada built a total of 7,390 aircraft in 1943, of which 3,257 were assembled from imported components. The Ameri can industry has produced 153,061 aii- cratt during the past three years and present production is at the rate of 350 a day. KLM to Buy Tudors ? REPORTS that the Royal Dutch Ait-line (KLM) have ordered a number ol 32-ton Avro Tudor civil airliners are said to have aroused a certain amount of concern in U.S. aircraft manufacturing circles, especially as a KLM director re cently 'visited American companies to look over their products. The KLM director is reported as say ing: " It has always been KLM's policy to buy where the company finds, at the right time, the best material for its air services." Helicopters in Action HELICOPTERS are BOW being used in the airborne invasion of Burma by Ameri can units of the Third Tactical Air Force, Eastern Air Com maud, says a recent Reuter message from Calcutta. The pilots were selected from a group of volunteers in the U.S., who underwent a special course of training at the Sikorsky factory at Bridgeport, Connecticut, and arrived in India by air. With them arrived* their machines, ground cre-vs and technicians. SEEING FOR HIMSELF: Sir Stafford and Lady Cripps recently visited the Blackburn aircraft factory, travelling there by air, Comdre. Slattery (Chief Naval Representative), Sir Stafford, Capt. Norman Blackburn and Mr. Robert Blackburn are here seen cross;ng the tarmac U.S. Decorations COL. ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT, second son of the U.S. President, has been awarded the C.B.E., which was recently presented to him by Air Chiel Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory: the decora tion is for his leadership in operations in the Notth-West African campaign when he commanded a photographic reconnais sance unit which did invaluable work. * # » C OL. LESLIE P. ARNOLD, Com manding Officer of the Ferry Ser vice of the U.S. Air Command, has been presented with the Legion of Merit by Lt. Gen. Carl Spaatz, Commander of the U.S Strategic Air Forces in Europe, for his services in connection with the ferry ing 01 combat aircraft to their opera tional bases from their landing point in England. A Words of Warning WARNING against the too comfort able notion that the Luftwaffe was now as good as written off was given by Wing Cdr. Hodsell, Inspector General of Civil Defence, addressing a jecent meet ing of the Industrial Passive'Air Defence Officers' Guild in Birmingham. "Don't let us get the idea that we have knocked out the German Air Force yet," he said. "The Germans are con serving themselves a good deal. Let us work on the assumption that he is still formidable and will put forth his last ounce to stave off what he knows is the last phase." "Pennies for Planes" T HIS is the new slogan of the Air League of the British Empire which has hit upon the neat idea of asking British citizens to subscribe a penny every day on which they see an aircraft. This being Leap Year, the idea should bring in 30s. 6d. per head per annum— if you see what we mean! Well Deserved Holidays \ T 7E who must forgo our summer fort-' nights by the sea should be glad to know that our airmen on the Italian front are being provided with really pleasant surroundings in which to spend, t a few days' testful leave. V\ Some of the best hotels in Southern Italy's seaside resorts, and a number of large summer villas of wealthy Italian landowners are at their disposal. Glider-Commander's D.S.C. L T. COL. WALTER PUCELL SCOTT, M.C., commander of the men who made the initial glider landings with the late Gen. Wingate's airborne division in Burma, has been awarded the Distin guished Service Cross. The American D.S.C., which ranks neit to the Congressional Medal of Honour, is a bronze cross with the inscription "For Valor," and is given for " extraordinary heroijjta iu armed operations." G.B.'s Aidj/TUS. HAN DSOMEj^cknowledg-ment oL«rie aid given to America b^Britain in the shape oLJreverse Lend-Lcase is tnada«3y President Roose velt ^r his Fifteenth Lend- Leas^Report issued the other da#^ The total value of this fciprocal aid to the^be- Tinning of the p r &Jen i 1 V .& \jf
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