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38 FLIGHT International, 7 January 1965 Five-hundred pound bombs drop from a South Vietnam Air Force Skyraider, right, in a strike against Viet Cong guerillas. Note the South Vietnam markings, which are simple adaptations of US markings. Ex-USN Skyraiders (still hook-equipped) have been in use in South Vietnam for some months, replacing armed T-28 trainers in strike duties. The US main- tains the attitude that its forces are simply "advisers" to the South Viet- namese, with one US and one Vietnamese flier crewing every aircraft but, below, it is the "adviser" who is checking the fragmentation bombs on a Skyraider before departure from Bien Hoa air base near Saigon. Also carried by the Sky- raiders are 20mm cannon, rockets, napalm tanks and 2501b bombs. In the bottom picture Skyraiders break to attack another Viet Cong position. Photographs by Associated Press photo- grapher Horst Faas Australian Build-up in New Guinea PAPUA - NEW GUINEA is to be made a full military command, equal to any in Australia, the Federal Government has decided. Military preparedness in the area has been much increased since the assumption by Indonesia of sovereignty over "West Irian"—formerly Dutch-ruled West New Guinea, and major military construction works are being undertaken in Papua - New Guinea. Top priority is to be given to the develop- ment of Boram airfield, in the Northern Highlands, which will become Australia's largest strike base outside mainland Australia. The Australian Army is building hundreds of miles of roads through virgin bush in the Northern Highlands, near the West Irian border, using bulldozers flown in by RAAF C-130s. Army helicopters are surveying the bush between Vanimo and Telefomin and along the Sepik river, using fuel dumps set up along the river by an Army landing craft and operating from abandoned wartime airstrips. "Ark Royal" Line Book Unearthed THE "LINE BOOK" of the earlier carrier HMS Ark Royal, which was sunk in 1940, has been found, after being missing for over 20 years, in a St Alban's, Herts, public house. The line book covers the period from 1938 to after the sinking. The finder is the now retired Lt Cdr Norman Manley-Cooper, who served in Ark Royal as a midshipman observer in one of her Swordfish squadrons. The book had apparently been left in the pub by a cus- tomer about nine months ago. Through Lt Cdr Manley-Cooper it has been returned to the present Ark Royal, which re-commissions this year after a refit at DevoHport. THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the arrival in Britain of the first RCAF squadron to be posted overseas, on February 27,1940, is to be marked with a dinner in Toronto on the same day next month. The squadron was 110 Sqn, RCAF, which has since been redesignated 400 (City of Toronto) Sqn (Auxiliary) and which now flies C-45 Expeditors and DHC Otters from RCAF Downsview, Ontario. The CO of 400 Sqn, Wg Cdr G. E. Gilroy, is anxious to contact all members of the original 1940 contingent, together with all officers who have served with 110 or 400 Sqn, and with 10 Sqn, as the unit was known on its foundation in 1932.
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