AIR DEFENCE
TRAINING CAMP
WELLINGTON SQUADRON
(By Telegraph.) (Special to the "Evening Post.")
BLENHEIM, This Day.
Blenheim is shortly to be the centre of aerial activity on quite a large scale by the Wellington Territorial Squadron of the Eoyal New Zealand Air Force which' is going into camp here for two weeks from November 16. The squadron, which is commande4 by Squadron-Leader E. A. Gibson, has a personnel of about 100 officers and men. It will be under canvas in a paddock just to the west of the Maryborough Aero Club's hangars at the aerodrome, alongside the boundary of the flying field. The aircraft to be used will include six Blackburn Baffin torpedo bombers, and the training to be done will include bombing and machine-gun practice from the air. This will be carried out with live bombs and ammunition on the dry bed of Lake Grassmere, where targets are to be constructed for the purpose.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 98, 22 October 1938, Page 15
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