AUSTRALIAN PILOTS
Want to Fight Japanese
LONDON, January 25
The "Dally Express" reveals that Australian pilots in the R.A.F, stationed in Britain want to return homo to deal with the Japanese and are urging the authorities to release them.
The Australians feel that the enormous expansion of the Fighter Command makes it possible for their squadrons to bo spared to fight where the battle is hottest and where they could supply just that backbone of experience which is needed for fighting the Japanese.
Many of the Australian pilots say they are ready to take any chance to get to the Pacific, by flying and even by stoking cargo vessels.
The Air Ministry declines to make comment, *.
The Australian Government controls the Royal Australian Air Force squadrons at present operating against Japan,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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