WARTIME SECRET TOLD
ONLY TWO ‘ACK-AOC GUNS (P.A.) AUCKLAND, Oct. 24. That there were only two antiaircraft guns in the whole of New Zealand at the time when this coutry was in danger of a Japanese invasion was revealed by Mr. Kcl- . vin Cuff, a member of the scientific team attached to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research during the war, in an address to the Auckland Creditmen’s Club. “The position at that time was practically impossible and with only two guns we did not know where to put them to give the best advantage,” said Mr. Cuff. “With a coastline the length of ours any attempt to have used them for protection would have been hopeless.’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 4
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118WARTIME SECRET TOLD Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21852, 24 October 1945, Page 4
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