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48 Service Aviation .... the Malta Command instead ol H.(j Middle East. The R.A.F. stations at Benina, about eight miles east of Ben- ghazi, and El Adem, ten miles south oi Tobruk, will be transferred to the control of Air H.Q., Malta. Temporary Homes AS normal R.A.F. married quarters arcall occupied, temporary accommoda- tion has been provided for R.A.F.families returning from overseas and having no homes in this country. Forairmen's families this is at Cranage, near Crevve, Cheshire, and for officers'families at Hethel, near Norwich. Living at both centres is mainly communal. Honoured in Prague AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIRRODERIC HILL, Air Council Mem- ber for Technical Services, flew his per-sonal Mitchell to Prague recently to be invested with the Order of the WhiteLion, conferltd upon him by the Presi- dent of the Czechoslovak Republic inrecognition of his war services. Lady Hill, who was a music studentunder Professor Cevcik in Pisek, near Prague, before her marriage, witnessedthe investiture and travelled from Northolt with Air Chief Marshal SirDouglas Evill, A.V-M. Sir Conrad Collier, and Air Cdre. C. E. H. Allen,who received similar decorations. C.A.S. at Cutler's Feast THE Chief of Air Staff, Marshal of theRoyal Air Force Lord Tedder, in the course of his reply to the toast of " TheImperial Forces of the Crown," at the Cutler's Feast at Sheffield on June 25th,said: '' Modern war is not a closed shop for, professionals. The lessons of thewar must be understood by everyone, by the public. It has been well put byone of our leading writers on military subjectsr-' if you want peace, under-stand war.' "War is no longer merely a series ofbattles between the armed forces: it is the ultimate test of the strength andvitality of the nation, a test of its moral strength as well as its physical strength,of its brains as well as its muscles, of its stamina as well as its courage. Thatmeans that if a nation is to be fit to stand up to that test it must be physic-ally and morally fit in peacetime. It means also—and this is the vital factoraffecting the size and shape of the armed forces—that the allocation of thenational effort must be care- fully balanced. It would beno use developing huge muscles if in so doing weoverstrained the heart. That \ is true in peace: it is also \jtrue in war. Waging war on theblank cheque basis may well lead to the bankruptcycourt. It is, to say the least, questionable whetherwe could survive winning a third war like the last two. " The other point I wouldlike to make is a purely military one. In the earlystages of the late war we sailors, soldiers and airmenhad our heads knocked to- JULY IOTH, 1947 "600" AT TANGMERE: Officers of No. 600 (City of London) Squadron, Auxiliary Air Force, at Tangmere, where they spent their summer camp. The Squadron's home station is biggin Hill, Kent. gether, rather hard, and were—rather harshly—taught the lesson that sea power, land power and air power were very closely interdependent. You may say that air power was the cause of all the trouble; on the other hand I am in- clined to think that the air was in fact the unifying factor. I be- lieve that not infrequently an unhappy marriage "is transformed into a happy one by child .'. the advent of Tropical Lincoln Bodge of No. 313 Sqdn., R.A.F.—"Jeden jestrab mnoho vran rozhanl." (A single hawk scatters many rooks). THE Avro Lincoln Atlas,loaned by the R.A.F. to the R.A.A.F. for ex-haustive tropical tests has finished its job and returnedto the U.K. in charge of S/L. C. Stark, carrying, inaddition to its crew of eight, two senior officers en routeto the R.A.F. Staff College. Operating from Darwinthe Lincoln flew 34,000 miles, often at oxygen height. Tests arereported to have shown the type to be very satisfactory for tropical use, thoughcertain modifications have been suggested to improveits high standard of suit- ability. Carriers for Antipodes A USTRALIA is preparing•£*• a welcome for the largest contingent of Britishwarships to visit the con- tinent since the dispersal ofthe wartime British Pacific Fleet from its base at Syd-ney. Rear-Admiral G. E. Creasy, C.B., CBED.S.O., M.V.O., the Flag Officer (Air), Far East- wasdue to sail from Singapore for Melbourne on July 11,and is to pay a three-days' visit to Hobart, Tasmania, en route. H.M.S. Thesew (Capt. R. K. Dick- son, D.S.O., R.K.) is proceeding in com- pany with H.M. destroyer Cockade (Lt. Cdr. J. B. Cox, R.N.) and will join the light fleet carrier H.M.S. Glory (Capt. W. T. Couchman, D.S.O., O.B.E., R.N.) and H.M. destroyer Con- test (Lt. Cdr. J. C. Cart- wright, D.S.C., R.N.) at the Victorian capital. The warships are also to vis.t Sydney, New South Wales and Brisbane, Queensland, and in August Theseus and Cockade will proceed to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand. Badge of No. «4 Opera- tional Training Unit, R,A.F. — " Weld well — Wield well." Lucky Lads TWO A.T.C. cadets—Sgt.Peter J. Giddens anil Sgt. John L. H. Newell—have been chosen to accom- pany No. 617 Squadron onits forthcoming six-week goodwill and training flightto Canada and the U.S.A. Apart from their natural interest in the flight aspotential R.A.F. aircrew, they are hop- ing to renew acquaintanceship wifhmembers of the U.S.A.A.F. whom they met in this country. Both are anxiousto learn something of American educa- tion methods, and Sgt. Newell hopes tobe able to visit either Harvard or Yale University. 617 Squadron is now pre-paring for the flight, which starts on July 22nd, at R.A.F. Station Binbrook,Lines. Handbook of Preventive Medicine meet the particular needs of the Royal Air Force a handbook of pre- ventive medicine has been compiled from the modern preventive, as distinct from the purely curative, approach. It • is con- sidered that the manual will interest medical officers of the Colonial Service and of business undertakings.
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