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1946
1946 - 0348.PDF
184 FLIGHT FEBRUARY 2IST, 1945 HERE AND THERE union Committee, Room 771, AirMinistry, Adastral House, Kingsway, W.C.2, before March 21st next. Sleeping accommodation in Londonfor a number of airmen can be arranged on request but officers are expected tomake their own arrangements. Incidentally, those who previouslyapplied—they numbered some 1,200— will now have to apply again, but theymay like to know that a fully licensed bar lias been arranged. "Mile. Pimpernel"M ANY an E.A.F. pilot and memberof an aircrew owed his liberty, after baling out over German-occupiedEurope, to the 25-year-old Belgian girl' whose photograph appears below. She is Mile. Andree de Jongh, who,for some eighteen months during the war, helped all kinds of Allied airmen—nearly 1,000 in all—to get back to England from Belgium and France, untilshe was finally caught by the Gestapo and i-eni to a concentration camp. rs\ Viscount Stansgate presents thebomber's clock to Mile. Andree de Jongh. She made no fewer than 34 journeysacross France and over the Pyrenees in all weathers, and one day swam a river20 times to get her charges safely across. Last week this modern " Mile. Pimper-nel " was deservedly awarded the George Medal by the King, and was presentedwith a bomber's clock by Lord Stensgate, Secretary for Air, on behalf of the R.A.F. AIRSTRIP ... No. 2 TEST TARGET : The 32,730 ton Japanese battleship, Nagato, is one of the fleet of 97 vessels on which the first of three tests with atom bombs will be made in May. News in Brief AN R.A.F. exhibition was opened inZurich last week by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham. The ceremonywas attended by Dr. Karl, President of ' the Swiss Federal Council, and popularinterest has been centered mainly in a Spitfire which the townspeople were see-ing for the first time. * * * Group Capt. A. V. R. ("Sandy")Johnstone, a former leader of No. 602 (City of Glasgow) Fighter Squadron, hasbeen appointed Air Attache to Eire and takes up his new duties this month.* • * Maj. Gen. K. N. Crawford, who hasbeen Director of Air at the War Office since 1942, has been appointed G.O.C.British Troops in Greece in succession to Lt. Gen. Sir Ronald Scrobie, and takesthe acting rank of lieut. general. * * » A consignment of books, part of alibrary of 2,000 volumes from Belvoir Castle, presented to the British Em-bassy in Paris by Mr. Duff Cooper, British Ambassador to France, were re-cently flown to Le Bourget in a Miles Acrovan. * # • Officers who have served at, or beenattached to, the R.A.F. headquarters at Gillingham, Kent, during the war, maylike to knoiy that Fit. Lt. E. Dicken hopes to arrange a reunion dinner in-London at an early date and that the formation of an association has also beensuggested. Those interested should write to Fit. Lt. Dicken at Gillinghamand give their present addresses. * * » Air Vice-Marshal Sir Edward Rice,former A.O.C. in West Africa, arrived recently in India to take over the postof Deputy Director Aircraft (India). Air Comdre. Edward I. Bussel, the newDirector of Training and Licensing, also arrived on the same day. • - * Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlandsrecently decorated Marshal of the R.A.F. Sir Sholto Douglas with theKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau (with sword), in theRoyal Palace of Soestgyt. This is Sirs Sholto's twentieth decoration and theseventh from a foreign country. * • «A Flying Fortress of No. 168 Trans- atlantic Mail Squadron, R.C.A.F.,piloted by Air Vice-Marshal J. L. Plant, recently flew the 2,300 miles from Van-couver to Ottawa in 7hr. 26min., an average speed of 305 m.p.h. The pre-vious best time was iohr. 52min. achieved by a Liberator of the samesquadron. * * • Professor F. C. Haus, who directs thr Technical Service of Aeronautics at theBelgian Ministry of Transport, and Pro- fessor F. P. A. Malschaert, of GhentUniversity, are visiting this country to study British aeronautical developmentsA tour of the leading aircraft firms an.) M.A.P. has been arranged for them ('"vthe British Council.
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