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Aviation History
1946
1946 - 1136.PDF
FLIGHT JUNE 6TH, IQ46 SERVICE AVIATION INSTRUMENT OF OCCUPATION : No. 4 Squadron of the Royal Indian Air Force sailed recently to Japan aboard the carrierVengeance, to join the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces. The picture above shows a Spitfire XIV being lowered on to the flight deck of the carrier. Royal Air Force and Naval Air Arm News and Announcements Air Staff Post Discontinued IT is announced by the Air Ministrythat the Air Staff is being reduced and partially reorganized, as part of thepolicy of contracting the wartime strength of the Air Force. In the course of these reductions, thepost of Deputy-Chief of the Air Staff was discontinued on June 1st; Air Mar-shal A. Durston, C.B., A.F.C., last Deputy C.A.S., passes to the retired list. Demobilization THE advance programme of R.A.F.and W.A.A.F. releases for July and August states that the general level ofrelease for ground airmen will be Group 40. The average release group of air-women is given as 48. Aircrew, both officers and airmen, will be released up toand including Group 46. R.A.F. ground officers and W.A.A.F.officers will be released at Groups 39 and 47 respectively, although, as usual, vari-ations remain due to shortages in certain branches. American DecorationW ING CDR. R. P. BEAMONT,D.S.O., D.F.C., last week received the American D.F.C. Wing Cdr. Bea- mont, who was captured on the Con-tinent in 1944, led the top-scoring Tem- pest Wing against the flying bombs. R.A.F. Pay'Qroups Concentrated "TEARING effect from the same date as-*- the new pay rates (July 1st), a new system of trade grouping has been an-nounced. The present six groups will be condensed into four—A, B, C, and D. As a general rule all trades in Group Iwill be transferred to Group A, with the exceptions of Moulder, Pattern Makerand Turner, which will be in Group B. The initial rate of pay, after training, forGroup A is to be 45s 6d weekly. All existing trades in Group II willtransfer to Group B, except that of R/T Operator, which will be in Group C.Pay rate of Group B is to be 42s. Group C will consist of all trades inGroup III except Motor Boat Crew (to be classed under Group D), all trades inGroup IV, and the following in Group V •—Driver M.T., Musician, P.T. Instruc-tor, Parachute Training Instructor and R.A.F. Police. The rate of pay forGroup C will be 38s 6d. The trades in Group V are to comeunder Group D, with the exception of the five trades in Group C mentioned above.Group D will receive 35s weekly. ini-A 3.na%, The Medical and Dental trades are tobe divided between Groups B and C as follows: the trades of Dental Mechanic,Dispenser, Laboratory Assistant, Mas- seur, Mental Nursing Orderly, OperatingRoom Assistant, Radiographer, Special Treatment Orderly and Trained Nursewill come under Group B, and those of Chiropodist, Dental Clerk Orderly, Nurs-ing Orderly, Optician Orderly and Sani tary Assistant are to come un-"Group C. Grouping of the trades of GunnerP.A.C. Operator will be notified later. R.A.F. Living Conditions Improved WHEN the current plans to improveliving conditions in the R.A.F. are completed—and their scope may begauged by the fact that it is proposed to spend ^2,000,000 on the job in thepresent financial year—life in the Service should be so pleasant that retired"Blimps" with 1914 ribbons will prob- ably snort with contempt at it?(alleged) softness, as they have done, 0! course, at each succeeding improvementin the lot of the serving man. But while it is true that the good sailor,
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