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1945 - 1843.PDF
FLIGHT SEPTEMBER 2OTH, 1945 HERE AND THERE VE-DAY 82,000 were ferried to Britain.Undoubtedly the knowledge of this speedy attention to the wounded raisedthe morale of our troops in the field. In the second week of August, 1944,the daily total of casualty clearances by air exceeded those by sea. The air-borne mortality rate was only 25 per cent, of the seaborne rate.Ex-prisoners of war brought back to Britain by air numbered 144,188. Poor Fish O PEAKING at the commissioning cere-»J mony of the U.S.S. Midway, the 45,000-ton aircraft carrier, Mr. Artemusdates, Under-Secretary of the Navy, said: "The U.S. Navy is working toadapt the atom bomb to carrier planes." R.A.F. in Norway AN exhibition telling the wartime storyof the R.A.F. was opened in Oslo recently by Air Chief Marshal Sir SholtoDouglas, C.-in-C. of the British Air Forces in Germany. Crown Prince Olaf and Crown PrincessMartha of Norway were present, and thousands of Norwegians crowded thesquare outside during the ceremony. Crown Prince Olaf, speaking in excel- "DESOLUTIONS recently -introduced•*-*• into the U.S. Senate calling for a peacetime Navy of 1,079 ships includedprovision for 116 aircraft carriers. * • • Rotor heads for Sikorsky R-5 and R-6helicopters are now being produced by the Hamilton Standard Propellersdivision of the United Aircraft Corpora- lent English, praised the R.A.F.'sfight in the dark days of 1940. He said that Norwegians never feltresentment when R.A.F. bombs damaged their homes. New Air Chief MAJOR-GEN. RIISER LAR-SEN, former Antarctic ex- plorer and C.-in.-C. of the Nor-wegian Air Force in Britain, has been appointed Chief of NorwegianAir Defence. "Royal Air Force Day" DESPITE reports to the con-trary, no decision has yet been •reached regarding future com-memoration of the Battle of Britain. It had been said that thepre-war Empire Air Day and the Battle of Britain commemorationshould be absorbed into one Royal Air Force Day. Royal Transport for S.E.A.C. A DMIRAL LORD LOUIS MOUNT-A BATTEN has accepted the offer by the Duke of Gloucester of his Avro YorkEndeavour for use in moving sick and News in Brief tion at East Hartford. Each rotor head—of which about 400 have already been delivered from this factory—containsapproximately 900 separate parts, some of which are being machined by sub-contractors in various districts of New England. • • * The Ministry of Aircraft Production Ltd. Gr luriination owe Army, planijfnvasion^ and#Gr No.An aircraftman of the R.A.F. looks-on while RussiansAmerican negotiate a transaction. '. r Ordered sixty GALLONS.'" wounded prisoners of war in the FarEast. The interior is being altered to takeeight stretcher and six sitting cases. It will be available for this purpose for atleast two months. announces that, following the introduc-tion of the simplified control procedure for light metals, Mr. G. W. Lacey,B.Sc, A.I.C., has relinquished his ap- pointment as Controller of Light Metalsin order to rejoin the British Aluminium Co., Ltd. He is succeeded by Mr. C. G.McAuliffe, B.A. The address of the Con- troller of Light Metals remains as for-merly, namely, Southam Road/ Ban- bury, Oxon. • * * The new head ofticeof the AeronauticalEngineers' Association at 108, Church Street, Croydon, will be opened onOctober 1st. The former head office at 68, Royal Avenue, Belfast, is being re-tained as the Northern Ireland district office. # * # Air Chief Commandant Lady Welsh,Director of the W.A.A.F., will shortly make, a tour of inspection of W.A.A.F.sections in S.E.A.C. * * * s **Air Marshal Sir Leonard H. Slatter, A.O.C.-in-C. Coastal Command, has be-come a vice-president of the Association of British Aeromodellers. The councilof the A.B.A. have announced three com- petitions for which'there will be /210 incash prizes and four silver trophies. BERLIN BARTER Group Capt. F. H. L. Searl has beenappointed group sales manager to the Hunting Aviation; Group. Among itsmany concerns ttie. Hunting Group in- cludes Percival Ajfrcraft, Ltd., Field Con-solidated Aircraft Services, Ltd., Air- craft Operating§-Q-, Ltd., and Aerofilms,''s principal occu- ftt^ were co-;eVir suppWt for the for/the Norrikpdy ill~Capt. (Ops\ with
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