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496 MAY IOTH, 1945 THE Civic Honour AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ARTHI RHARRIS, Bomber Command's chief, who was educated at All Hallows School,Honiton, is the receive the Freedom of the Borough of Honiton. Dunlop Qhief Resigns MR. C. A. PROCTOR, joint managingdirector of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has resigned on completion of 54years' service with the company at home and abroad. Honourable Director LT. GEN. Kl'MAICHI TERAMOTO, aformer assistant military attach^ in Washington, has been appointed directorof Japanese army aviation headquarters. He succeeds Gen. Korechika Anami, WarMinister in the new Suzuki Cabinet. AIR TO GROUND : The potentialities of the rocket projectile having been de-veloped and proved with aircraft, this weapon has now been adapted for tanks— in this case, the Sherman. They are electrically fired from inside. Buoy, Oh Buoy ! " 'TPHE well-known Sunderland," says-*- an article on flying boats in the May issue ot The Sea Cadet, " ... is alsoused for civil flying and is a lighter boat than the Stirling." Short Brothers will not mind our add-ing that it also floats much better. U.S. Air Chief's AwardT HE Distinguished Sendee Medal for'' exceptionally meritorious service '' has been awarded by Gen. H. H. Arnoldto Brig. Gen. Benjamin W. Chidlaw, commander of the Mediterranean .?rCFCoarcesAir Forces and I2th DECK LANDING CONTROL SIGNALS A.T.C. Week-end ^PHREE interesting events for the King to Visit Cranwell THE King is to visit the R.A.F.College, Cranwell, on Wednesday next, May 16th, when the College'sSilver Jubilee is to be celebrated. His coming week-end have been1 planned by the A.T.C under the auspices of the Chief Commandant and Director General, Air Marshal Sir Leslie Gos- sage, K.C.B., C.V.O., D.S.O., M.C. On Saturday, May 12th, the A.T.C. Inter- national Football Match (England v. Scotland) will take place at Totten- ham Hotspur Football Club Ground, W'hite Hart Lane, N.17—kick- off 3.30 p.m. On Sunday, May I3th,_ the National Air Train-' ing Corps will parade in Hyde Park ' (The Cock- pit) at 3.0 p.m., and the Salute will bo taken by Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Charles Portal, G.C.B., D.S.O., M.C., Chief of the Air Staff, and on Monday, May 14th, at 7.0 p.m., the A.T.C. National Boxing Championships will be held at the Royal Albert Hall. 'CHOP THROTTLE CCOSBOf A.D-9-JLS. THE BATSMAN : Deck landing controi officer's signals to piloA.D.D.L.S. means "aerodrome dummy deck landings." Majesty was himself at Cranwell as ayoung officer during the last war. Incidentally, this is the first advanceannouncement of a Royal movement to be made since the security ban was im-posed at the start of the war. Air Marshal Knighted THE KING received in audience AirMarshal Sir Guy Garrbd, " Seac's " Allied Air C.-in-C, at BuckinghamPalace last week. Sir Guy, whom the King knighted andinvested with the Insignia of the K.C.B., went to India in 1943 as deputy toAir Chief Marshal Sir Richard E. C. Peirse, and his award was gazetted inJune of the- same year. Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory, it will be remembered,was to have succeeded Sir Richard in January last, but his aircraft was lostwhen he was on his way, with Lady Leigh Mallory,to take up the post and Sir Guy was appointedin his place. U.S. Naval Air Strength THE U.S. Navy nowhas seven times the number of aircraft it hadon its strength at the time of the attack onPearl Harbour, and has imposed an aircraft los^ratio of five to one on the enemy. This was reported byAdmiral D. C. Ramsey, chief of the Bureau ofAeronautics, to the House Committee on Appropriation^, and he als said that since theautumn/of 1942, when the U/6. had only threecarriers left in Pacific Ocean, thehad built up a nearly 10"hose aircraft "WAVE OFF.'" C/O ROUHP AQAIH AT OMCEf*
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