N.Z. BOMBER CREWS CONGRATULATED

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 202, 24 May 1945, Page 7

N.Z. BOMBER CREWS CONGRATULATED

Great Service Record

(Official News Service.! LONDON, May 22. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harns, Commander-in-Chief, Bomber Command, referred to the courageous work of -New Zealand bomber crews in a message to the Air Officer Commanding, K.N.Z.A.I’., London. He stated: “Please convey to all the New Zealand personnel who have served or are serving in Bomber Command my great appreciation of then loval co-operation and gallant and deur mined contribution to the defeat of Germany and the freedom ot mankind. 1< all "New Zealand aircrews, and to all ground stall' personnel, their Britisa cousins give heartfelt thanks.. Me in Bomber Command are proud indeed or the great record of service of the New Zealand crews, who were second to none in courage and efficiency.” Lancaster bombers of Seventy-live (New’ Zealand) Squadron are carrying many hundreds of prisoners of war from dispatch centres in Germany to the bus.est “bus stop” in Britain, Westcott Aylesbury. Called oft dropping tood supplies to the Dutch in northern Holland, the squadron has this week assisted wi-i the conveyance of prisoners lr01 ” H parts of the Continent and nearly all H.e aircraft. utilized have been flying up to distinction, wh"n the aircrews landed in England N> Zealand prisoners. Thus has >. h e N’- W Zealand bomber squadron provided Hi. climax 10 an eventful career by retuimn., safely its own countrymen. .As tne - i men "left the Lancasters their reactions to the thrill of arriving was '/l 1 '^ 11 A 1 all the others, They looked almost bewildered as they clambered from Al.hatch and stood in oddly assorted urn forms, gazing about them at. the grass and hedgerows. They had entered w.i; ous aircraft of the squadron three hours earlier at Theine.