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1944
1944 - 1366.PDF
FLIC HERE THE Russian Theory DRAVDA, writing recently about the * German flying bomb, said: "This weapon has been produced as a result of an acute shortage of German pilots." M.G. Exchange THE four 0.3m. machine guns fitted in the wing6 of the Airacobra are now- being replaced by two 0.5m. guns. These are mounted under the wings in small streamlined bulges which are similar to those that were fitted on the Gloster Gladiator. More Indian Pilots AN Indian Air Force squadron has joined the Third Tactical Air Force on the Burma front. Flying Hurricanes, the Indian pilots, whose average age is 20, went into action several weeks ago and have logged nearly 1,000 operational hours on patrols, escorts and night and day strafing of the enemy in the Arakan and Imphal areas. Peerage for Sir S. Hoare VLIGHT offers its sincere congratula- •^ tions to Sir Samuel Hoare, on whom H.M. The King has conferred a Viscounty. The honour has been doubt less awarded chiefly on account of Sir Samuel's services as Ambassador to Madrid at a very difficult juncture. But he has held many posts, and in particu lar has been Air Minister three times. He was, in fact, the first Air Minister since the last war who really distin guished himself in that office. It was owing to his initiative that Imperial Ait- ways was formed. Birthday Surprise A IR MARSHAL SIR RODERICK HILL, commanding A.D.G.B., sprang a '' birthday surprise'' on air women of his command when he told them that they would shortly be going over to the Continent to serve with the Allied Expeditionary Air Force. The Air Marshal, addressing a parade BURMESE CONTRAST : Coolie women on a forward airfield strike a vivid con trast with a C-47 of Air Transport Command of South East Asia Command. to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the W.A.A.F., expressed the R.A.F.'s appre ciation of their work. " Target for To-night" Star Decorated GROUP CAPT. JOHN A. POWELL, R.A.F., who, says Reuter, has been awarded the United States D.F.C. for bringing back a Liberator, in which he was observer, after the pilot and co-pilot had both been wounded, was one of the chief players of the film '' Target for To-night." He has spent 15 of his 35 years in the R.A.F. "Smithy's" Nephew WING CDR. ROLLO KINGSFORD-SMITH, D.F.C., of Mosman, New South Wales (a nephew of the late Air Comdre. Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith), has relinquished his command of an Aus tralian Lancaster squadron in Britain. He has been posted to an operational training unit. Wing. Cdr. Kingsford-Smith, who was awarded the D.F.C. last month, took command of his late squadron at 24—the youngest bomber CO. at that time. Improved R/T MASTER SGT. JOHN M. MAYER, of Philadelphia, Communications Chief with a Fighter Control squadron of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command, has been awarded the Legion of Merit for devising a highly complex radio equip- WINGS TO COME : A Scots design for post-war production to carry 100 pas sengers and 27,000 lb. of freight on Trans-Atlantic routes. Total weight 300,000 lb. ment which has greatly improved ra> ft communication between Fighter basi.1! in England and their Fighter pilots in combat over Europe. His device has been adopted by the Eighth Fighter Command, states Ameri can Air Headquarters, with a resultant speed-up of messages and elimination of switching failures. Double Service AIR Service Command and Troop Carrier Command pilots of the Ninth Air Force are transporting an average of 100 tons daily of high priority cargo to U.S. Forces in France, then evacuating/ between 500 and 800 wounded in thair returning aircraft. Major Milton T. Evans, commanding a Ninth Air Force Service Command Transport Squadron now operating out . of Normandy, gave this estimate. As more aircraft are put in'use by the squadron. Major Evans expects to be evacuating between 1,000 and 1,200 wounded soldiers daily within a short time. R.A.F. Wounded RELATIVES of R.A.F. wounded are asked not to -be worried if their hus band or son writes them from a R.A.F. casualty clearing station in this country, and his address is given as "some where in England." R.A.F. casualties, when they arrive by air, proceed to a R.A.F. casualty clear ing Hospital in the south within 36 hours, and sometimes in less than a day. They are later removed to a base hos pital. It is not possible for relatives to visit the wounded at the casualty clearing station, but it can be done as soon as they arrive at the base hospital. Pan-American Proposition M R. JUAN T. TRIPPE, President of Pan-American Airways Corporation, in his annual report to stock-holders, said the interest of the U.S. would be best served by a single American inter national operation of air transport. " Such an operation," he said, " should be strong enough to compete on even terms with the great foreign flag air
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