Australian Pilots Want to Return Home
DESIRE TO DEAL WITH THE JAPANESE Received Monday, 10 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 25. The Daily Express reveals that Australian R.A.F. pilots stationed in Britain want to return home to deal with the Japanese and are urging the authorities to release them. They feel that the enormous expansion of the Fighter Command makes it possible for their squadrons to be spared to fight where the battle is hottest and where they could supply just that backbone of experience needed for fighting the Japanese. Many Australian pilots say they are ready to take any chance to get to the Pacific by flying, even by stoking cargo vessels. The Air Ministry declines to comment. The Australian Government controls the Australian Air Porce squadrons at present operating.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 67, Issue 22, 27 January 1942, Page 5
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