DOMINIONS UNITS
IN OPERATION SOON
(Received December 13, noon.)
LONDON, December 12,
In his speech in the House of Commons, Sir Kingsley Wood said that a full squadron of the latest four-engined flying-boats would soon be operating as a unit of the Royal Australian Air Force, and a squadron of the latest bombers was being foi'med with New Zealand personnel.
South Africa had largely expanded her air training organisations of firstline strength and had carried out valuable coastal reconnaissance. Southern Rhodesia was bringing the existing unit to full strength and was manning two additional squadrons.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 142, 13 December 1939, Page 11
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