CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 180, 1 August 1941, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

AIR HECORATIOSg

1 To the Editor)

A .orent news item, "May * ini\ Air Force *3r often icad of pilots reochSJS earner! decorations, but tter • , "° l ' - , rrt 7 s are only 11 n< i c■ i• the a! >ove raption. LastS" v.c read (if a plucky Aucklandi? s n-civing the D.F.C.. ania*» iv.'. later, his assistant-nibf fr Oiajro boy. was similarly renL? Th<- .:•:-. ..{ This particular TrSv 1 ton bomber consists of, T ISfe tho two ;:l("ve-inentioned oßfae New Zealand <'bserver-navie3?> l English wireless operatoraJ ,l English and a New Ski; machine-gunner. Good team*? on Ihe part of the crew ii utmost necessity in all surnl* -.-turns." whether they areSSt reconnoitring or actually "stnflw and n<. iK.mbt-r pilot wou3dS?, fly over Berlin at low alUtofc?! 75 mLnules nor to take runatosi! over P.rest unless he had the frflw confidence in his crew and kneirS; , no -300 in.p.h. -MesserschnsittimSf be allowed to "get on hfcTX Should he prove unfortunates contact an A.A. shell or semeX such piece of bad luck, the gunner will pet just as severeaah in the ni->-k as the pilot. Mnw» actually piloting a plane fcfc 'vlirty stuff' is not so nareoliS as sittinc or lyinc. attendingtoS pyrhap«. k-~s exhilarating dntiei s.r..<-.!v hope that in thefts the μ-vhv. of those will he Msjtably v..-.. ;,- ihe pilots, otherwise,baafe !.<--•-.-..!;- : _' an injustice on then/* w.i: l,e M.winp the seeds offiT tent ;■.;-.(! icalousy. ra ' TERRA FIRJU,