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1945 - 1490.PDF
AUGUST 2ND. 1945 F LIG H < • " Air to Ground SIX ambulances with radio equipment,a gift from the R.A.F., were last week handed over to Professor Bonnet,head of the French Red Cross, by Lady Diana Duff Cooper, wife of the BritishAmbassador in Paris. Arabian Knights IT is reported from Damascus that theSyrian Government is to send fifty young Syrians abroad to be trained aspilots, and local newspapers suggest that the Egyptian flying school may be theone chosen with the idea of strengthening collaboration between the two Arabcountries. Hell Corner MORE than 600 airmen who"ditched" between Dungeness and the Thames estuary during the warwere saved by R.A.F. Air/Sea Rescue launches of Dover Command. These wereviolently attacked by Lujtivaffe aircraft and, at the time of the Dieppe raid,suffered a 50 per cent, loss whenever they put to sea. / At Greenock— McTORE than 5cnechanics ancj dismissed by \ Sel (i reerroak,, jgfjfO The raw alleged th&i-ffcent contractshad been1 curtailed so that work could be diverted to England, otherwise the estab- ^pyi BEAUMAISON : In Bristol's factory at Weston-super-Mare it is hoped to turn out1,200 A.I.R.O.H. prefabricated aluminium houses per month when production is m full swing. These houses, seen here during assembly in the erecting shop whichformerly produced Beaufighters, are built in four complete units ready for transporting to the previously prepared site. lishment could have been maintained until June, 1946. —And at Belfast TTHE week before, 500 workers were-L also dismissed Ireland factory ofowing to lack of ^^ the previouatllfaMng deputationfrom 1 this tpliaitD^ent to Parliament Honsl, BelfW^fo protest against dis-missa*a*4 haa planned to stage a stay- in stride as a further protest, but theyaccepted their cards and left the factory. Hundreds more, it is reported, are to bepaid off at succeeding week-ends. The Missing Key, T IEUT.-GEN. SABURO ENDO, direc--L< tor,of the Japanese Air Arms Beard, is reported by their news agency as say-ing : '' The key to complete annihilation of the enemv lies in definite concentra- xcules flying 4.ts wings ^radial engines.ifornia, has a spawood, it is powered by BIGGEST EVER : The world's big& boat now being built at Culver, are 13ft. thick at the tion of all available national strength onaircraft production." Absolute priority, he said, must be given to the aircraftindustry. For Involuntary Campers A MERICAN airmen flying in the Pacific** will carry a new jungle kit containing, among other tilings, a five-inch fryingpan. The new kit, now in production at an Air Technical Service Command fac-tory in Britain, is approximately a foot square and 2^in. thick and also containshunting knives, fishing tackle, flares and medical supplies. Jap "War of Nerves"T HE Daily Express last week published a statement from their own news service in New York to the effect that Willys Overland Motors are to produce 25,000,000 flying bombs of the Vi type at their Toledo (Ohio) plant. Yes, that was the figure—twenty-five million ! Airborne VotesL AST of the airborne ballot bags fromtroops in the Far East and on the Continent arrived on Tuesday, July 24th,at R.A.F. Transport Command airports in England. Sixteen bags reached Lyneham, Wilt-shire, from Colombo (Ceylon) and Shaibah, on the Persian Gulf, and on theprevious day 42 bags were handled from Colombo and the Middle East. From units in the Berlin area 60 bagswere received on the Tuesday, bringing the Berlin figure for the previous weekto just over 400. In the same period 224 bags came from Brussels, 101 fromLubeck, and 18 from Hanover. The Great Petrol MysteryT HE Government's marked reluctanceto release anything like a really use- ful amount of petrol for general use—notto mention freeing it from rationing altogether !—is creating widespread dis-satisfaction and even indignation. This has been sharpened by the uncon-vincing excuses made whenever the authorities are tackled on the subject.
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