AIR SUPERIORITY
BRITISH LEADER'S TRIBUTE
Rec 2.30 p.m. SYDNEY, this day. "We enjoy air superiority vn New Pninea both in the morale d skill of our pilots and in the performance of our aircraft, far exceeding anj thins we have so far achieved against the Germans in Europe," said MajoiGeneral Lethbridge, .leader of the British military mission to the Pacific in a broadcast address. General Lethbridge added that he was impressed by the close co-opera-"h£*t"wppn tJriG Air Forco snd txis ground and by the extent to which aircraft were used for transport in the New Guinea fighting.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 295, 13 December 1943, Page 3
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