AIRMEN FOR OVERSEAS
AUCKLAND FAREWELL
"TRADITION TO UPHOLD"
(By Telegraph—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, December 4,
"The service you are going to is a fine one. It has a brief but brilliant tradition and we look to you to-uphold that tradition," said Group-Captain Isitt, Acting Chief of the Air' Staff, this morning when farewelling seventeen young officers of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, the first to leave the Dominion for service abroad since the war began. "You have completed your training here, but don't forget that your training is only beginning. You are learning all the time to improve your gunnery and navigation. On those your success and safety will defend." Group-Captain Isitt also stressed the importance of preparation on the ground and also of doing any job,given theni for the sake of the job, and not for any good impression." they might make. "In that way you will become better officers," he said. "I wish you all good luck." The young men, all with the rank of Acting Pilot-Officer, are M. E., F. Barnett, E. N. &est, E. C. J. Cameron, F. H. Dent'ori, J. Duigan, D. V. Gilmour, A. G. L. Humphries, L. D. Loasby, D. H McArthur, M. F. McFarlane,_ J. E. S. Morton, H. A. Outram, G- N. Parker, C. A. Pownall, D. M. Rolph Smith, R. C. E. Scott, and J- §. Shorthouse.
AIRMEN FOR OVERSEAS
Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1939, Page 15
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