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^ MAY 24TH, 1945 351 Killed in Accidents A list of 20 senior officers of all threeServices who have lost their lives in air accidents while on duty was issued by theAir Minister last week. The list,, which refers only to accidents involving R.A.F.raft, includes four officers who are missing and presumed killed. French Awards for U.S. Airmen IN four ceremonies at U.S. Eighth AirForce stations in England recently, 23 Legion d'Honneur and 501 Croix deliuerre medals were awarded by Lt. Gen. Martial Valin, Chief of Air Staff in theFrench Air Force, to officers and enlisted men of the " Eighth'.' for exceptionalmilitary acts performed during opera- tions in the liberation of France. Airfield Expert Dies '"THE man who, in this war and the last,-»- was responsible for the creation of 87 airfields, has just died. He was Mr.Claude Pierrepont Hunter, governing director of Messrs. James Hunter, Seeds-men, of Chester. As a specialist in turf production, hisservices were called upon by the Govern- ment in 1914, and by the end of the warin 1918 he had seeded more than 30 air- fields and acceptance parks. Later heevolved a technique of construction and surfacing so successful .that a " hunter- ROUNDED UP : An Fw 190, its Nazi markings replaced by R.A.F. roundels,used by a Wing Commander after capture intact on its German airfield. ised " airfield became the recognisedstandard of good quality. Lord Beaverbrook, when Minister ofAircraft Production, appointed him ground specialist during the present war,and he has been responsible for the con- struction of over 40 bomber runways anddispersal sites. North of the Border AN M.A.P. report issued last week saysthat this Ministry has been respon- sible for building more new factories inScotland than all other Ministries put together. In addition to 29 new factories—either built by the M.A.P. or in asso- ciation with it—a further 11 factorieswere extended or converted. Twenty-nine well-known concernswhich, before the war, had no manufac- GO EAST, MY SUNDEMflCifib ! : Depth charges, in a Si^Serland's racks,"^hich, the Atlantic tasfcJ-cCrnpleted, will soon be dealing wUB Jap submarines. TE^ey •slide put under the wings to^be drd n r c turing interests in Scotland, were lednorth of the border, and of these only one has intimated its intention of givingup its Scottish interests. The biggest single industrial under-taking in Scotland was the Rolls-Royce aircraft engine works near Glasgow,which, at its peak period of war produc- tion, employed 25,000 people. A number of the new firms are engagedin the radio industry, and Scotland hopes to retain its place in this sphere ofactivity. Basic Ration! SIR ARCHIBALD SINCLAIR dis-closed in the House last week that during the past 12 months the R.A.F.used approximately 10,250,000 gallons of aviation fuel per day in operationsagainst Germany. And added to that, presumably, willbe a few odd gallons of lower-grade petrol used Jay their ground transport, Air Power Again ANNOUNCING last week that the**• Chinese, fighting on their own tefritory, now had for the first time notonly air support but air superiority, the Chinese Minister of Information atChungking attributed the current vic- tories over the Japs in Western Hunanto the co-ordination between ground and air forces and the close co-operationbetween U.S. and Chinese Forces. A.T.C. Boxing THE first item on the programme of17 contests in the finals of the A.T.C. Boxing Championships at the Albert. Halllast week was the contest in the Midget class of the Junior group for the FlightCup. This was won on points by Cadet R.Dagnall, of No. 178 (2nd Blackpool) Squadron, North-West Command, whodefeated Cadet D. H. Poole, of No. 169 (Plymouth) Squadron, South-West Com-mand. The boxing generally was of a goodstandard, that in the Junior group being especially teen. The finalists were, in
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