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MAY 17TH, 1945 FLIGHT 523 S.B.A.C. Appointment M R. JAMES ST ANTON, formerlyPress officer to the Conference of International Air Traffic Operators, has been appointed to the staff of the S.B.A.C.'s information department pre- sided over by Mr. E'. C. Bowyer. U.S. Medal for R.A.F. Cpi PL. GERARD CULLEN, R.A.F., of,Belfast, has been awarded the U.S. Army Soldier's Medal for heroism inrescuing an American airman trapped in a burning Liberator near Luqa, Malta,on April 17th, 1943. The presentation was made last weekat a special ceremony in London by torig. Gen. E. F. Koenig, commanding 'general of the U.K. base of the U.S. Army. V.C. Pilot Missing WING CDR. J. B. NICOLSON, whowon the V.C. in August, 1940, when he pursued and shot down a German raider over Southampton although his Hurricane was in flames, was last week reported missing, believed killed, in the Far East. Nicolson was the first fighter-pilot V.C. of the war and was posted to the India theatre in 1942. From First to Last FLT. LT. P. E. BARNS, a navigatorin 2nd T.A.F. Mosquito squadron, made the first operational flight to Ger- many with No. 21 Squadron on Septem- ber 27th, 1939, and also the last flight over Germany with that squadron on the night of April 24th, 1945. Altogether he has made 75 operational flights, and was leading navigator for the pin-pointattack on Amiens prison. Thanks to Air PowerA MESSAGE of congratulations hasbeen sent by Maj. Gen. Strate- meyer, chief of Eastern Air Command,to the commanding officers of the various U.S.A.A.F. and R.A.F. units taking partin the Burma campaign culminating in the fall of Rangoon. " Never before have operations been soutterly dependent on air power, and never has the air so magnificently ful-filled its mission," said the U.S. general in thanking everyone concerned for their"unstinting efforts in a job superbly done." Not DisprovedL T. GEN. JAMES. DOOLITTLE wasnot to be drawn when, at his Press conference last week (reported elsewherein this issue), he was asked if he thought the war against Germany could have beenwon by air power alone. Saying with a smile that the questionhad "got him out on a limb," the com- mander of the U.S. Eighth Air Forcereplied that although the war had not, in fact, been won by air power alone,that did not prove it could not have been done. In order to prove it could bedone we should have had to put the whole of our fighting resources into theair, but we had not done that. He added that he believed the conquestof Japan would be achieved by the same strategy as was used in Europe—soften-ing by air power and occupying by ground forces—and Maj. Gen. Anderson,his deputy commander, said that if neces- sary they would be able to put more than2,000 super-heavy bombers into the air against Japan at a time. Saying It with Flowers •T ANCASTER crews engaged on the •*-'. pleasant mission of dropping food supplies to the Dutch, have seen " Many Thanks" and "Thank You, Boys," laid out on the ground below in tulips. The bags of food, dropped from only about 500ft., reach their targets with great accuracy and, says the Air MiniS- try, intelligence officers to whom the crews report on their return, are getting used to the phrase '' They fell right in the larder." Peter Masefield's New Post T^HE appointment of Mr. Peter Mase--*- field as first British Civil Air Attache to Washington is announced. Mr. Mase-field is well known in both this country and America through his writings, andwe feel the appointment will be popular on both sides of the Atlantic. He com-bines youth and enthusiasm with exten- sive technical knowledge, and as per-sonal assistant to Lord Beaverbrook, the Lord Privy Seal, he has been in theclosest touch with recent developments. Flight wishes Mr. Masefield "all goodfortune in his new post. "Flying Earl" Promoted AIR COMDRE. LORD BRANDON,D.S.O., who is the only peer to have made the R.A.F. his career straightfrom college and who consequently be- came known as the "flying earl," hasrecently been promoted to the rank of Acting Air Vice-Marshal, Lord Brandon is an Irishman andwas commissioned from Cranwell in 1924 at the age pf 19. In the early1930s he was flying with a Middle East r ¥* .*-.. NIPPED IN THE BUD : On thfactory after Allied* jndarnaged. rJeft are the remains of a railyard full of V2 cc foreground is seen a truckload of combustion . rignT>is, the Vi assembly line in an underground^ 'outside the Kleinbodunger1 ifhich appear to have survived at Nordhausen 1''• , Jf^^™
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