ALLIED AIR ARMS
BRITISH OFFICER MAY TAKE COMMAND '
PARIS, October 28,
Once air warfare is fully launched it is expected that a British officer occupying a similar position to that of General Gamelin over the Allied
forces will command the air arms
Australian and New Zealand pilots behind the Western Front, who find waiting tiresome, are demonstrating their skill and daring by bombing buildings at one end of their aerodromes, which' they are not allowed to dp in peacetime. Dominion pilots, with the exception of the Canadians, are severely feeling the cold snap. News that a fortnight hence they will be granted two or three days' and nights' leave to various places, including Paris, has cheered them up.
The French fighters are markedly superior to the Messerschmitts. French production rises continually. The factories are employing 300,000, and aitforce recruits number 200 a day. Two hundred and fifty day and 70 night reconnaissance flights, have been carried out at an altitude of 25,000 feet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 7
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163ALLIED AIR ARMS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 104, 30 October 1939, Page 7
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