ROYAL AIR FORCE
MORE THAN DOUBLED IN STRENGTH (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright RUGBY, November 26. (Received November 27, at noon.) There have been nearly 17,000 applications for the .3,850 short-service commissions available in the Royal Air Force as the result of the expansion under the Government’s rearmament programme. Three thousand five hundred of the new officers have already completed their iiight training or arc in course of training. The total strength of the Royal Air Force has more than doubled in two years.
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Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 17
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86ROYAL AIR FORCE Evening Star, Issue 22817, 27 November 1937, Page 17
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