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1949
1949 - 0082.PDF
FLIGHT JANUARY 13TH, 1949 STttl /N THE NEWS: Recent events in the Middle East have served as a reminder that a number of R.A.F. units are still equipped with Spitfires. The specimen shown—0 Merlin-engined Mark 16—is used by the Central Gunnery School for fixed-gun training. R.A.F. Appointments ON January 17th A. Cdre. E. H.Richardson, C.B.E., takes up his new appointment as A.O.C. No. 27(Training) Group, Technical Training Command. He has been Director ofSignals at the Air Ministry for a year. A. Cdre. J. G. Hawtrey, C.B.E., be-comes Air Officer in charge of Adminis- tration at Coastal Command with effectfrom January 19th, alter two years at the Air Ministry as Director of Opera-tions (Intelligence). On becoming Com- mandant of -the R.A.F. Staff College,Andover, G/C. L. W. Cannon, C.B.E., who has been Assistant Commandant forthe past year, receives the acting rank of Air Commodore. Before going to An-dover A. Cdre. Cannon studied for a year at the Imperial Defence College. " Raid Reporting Exercises THE first in a series of practice opera-tions for men and women of the R.Aux.A.F.'s Fighter Control Units tookplace*on Sunday, January 9th. The exercises are being held under- opera-tional conditions with the co-operation of aircraft from the Auxiliary flyingsquadrons, and one exercise will take place monthly in each of four main sec-tors—Northern, Eastern, Metropolitan, and Southern. On the first Sunday ofeach month the Northern sector will exercise, followed on successive Sundaysby the Eastern, Metropolitan and Southern units. During the exercises the regularFighter Command control and reporting system operates, and it is intended thatregular fighter squadrons will also take part as the scheme develops. Some mem-bers of F.C.U.s in remote districts may not at first be able to participate, butas daylight hours increase it is hoped to fly them into the sectors and thus in- clude as many as possible in the exer-cises. During the winter months, hours of operation will be from 10 a.m. until4 P-m. Naval Appointment. TT is announced by the Admiralty that-•- Rear Admiral D. H. Everett is appointed to the new position of FlagOfficer, Ground Training, with effect from January 24 th. Rear Admiral Royal Air Force and Naval Aviation News and Announcements Everett will be responsible, as an ad-ditional "sab-commander, to the Flag Officer Air (Home) for supervising thetraining of ground personnel employed in Naval Aviation, and will be-the adminis-trative authority for air stations and establishments concerned. ..;•;, , Recognition Contest - T^W-Cr Jtoyal Air Force teams, me frpm-*- H.Q. Coastal Command, and the other from R.A.F. Station, Kirton Lind-say, Lines, have entered for this year's All-England Aircraft Recognition Con-test, to be held by the Aircraft Recog- nition Society in the Royal AeronauticalSociety's library at' 4, Hamilton Place, London, W.i, next Wednesday evening,January 19th. There is a large entry from the A.T.C., including teams fromNo. 8F Coventry Squadron, Nos. 4F and 20F Ilford Squadrons, No. 11F Brook-lands Squadron, No. 1454 Harrow Squadron, and No. 110 City of York Squadron, the last two of which haveeach entered two teams. Also partici- pating will be members of the RoyalObserver Corps from Stanmore, Stroud, Ashford (Kent), Bournemouth, Bed-worth, and a number of London posts. Four independent modelling and recog-nition clubs and three teams from " Air- Britain '' will also compete for thetrophy, a aolid silver model of the Hurri- cane (illustrated in Flight of October21st, 1948). The contest will consis-t erf identifying 35 pictures of mqdern air-craft projected on a screen, ,.., . "... R.A.F. Qraves in Polandv:-" A MISSING Research and Enquiry•£*• team has now completed a search for the graves of British airme& shot down;over Poland during the war. It has been probably, the most successful search .yetcompleted by the R.-A.F. in-any part of the world. Out of 75 missing" aircraft,involving 426 aircrew, only_ three .q&ses, involving nine crew members, remain'un-solved. The bodies of the 417 officer^ and airmen located have' been transferred toBritish military cemeteries! Two officers and a driver have spent eight -months on. the task and travelled some 25,000 miles across Eastern Europe. For workingpurposes the territory to be covered was divided into four areas'—- southern,western and northern Poland, and the Warsaw district, where the graves of thecrews shot down on supply-dropping operations during the Warsaw risings of1944 were discovered. A visit was also made to the cemetery at Sagan, wheremost of the urns containing the ashes of the 50 Stalag Luft III victims werefound. These were later buried in the British Military Cemetery at Poznan.Polish authorities were found to be most helpful and co-operative throughout thesearch. The team consisted of S/L. E. Rideal, Maj. I. McEwan, of the Rhine n 3c
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