ROYAL AIR FORCE
Progress of Strengthening
the Service
NEW SQUADRONS ADDED
(British Official Wireless.) (Received 17, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 16.
Twenty-six new squadrons, 23 in regular service and three auxiliary, have now been added to the strength of the Royal Air Force. Three of those have been formed during tho past month.
Forty-five more units must be added to bring up the strength of the Metropolitan Air Force to 123 squadrons. A further extension to 129 squadrons, backed by full war reserves and representing a vast augmentation of the striking power of the service, was outlined in a White Paper on defence published early in March. Thirteen special civil flying training schools, where initial tuition for young pilots is given, have been created.
Men are joining the service in satisfactory numbers aud quality. Between April, 1935, and the end of March this year the force took on 940 pilots and just under 15,000 airmen. Since April 1 another 900 pilots and large numbers of airmen have joined.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 235, 17 September 1936, Page 7
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