R.N.Z.A.F. Not Affected By New Air Command
MELBOURNE. This Day
Creation of a Far East Air Force, with headquarters in Australia, will not affect the Royal New Zealand Air Force, which will remain in the South Pacific and is not embraced by the Far East Air Forces, This was efTicially announced from General MacArthur's headquarters. The change brings under a single command the American 13th Air Force, which lias fought a successful campaign against the Japanese in the South Pacific, and the American sth. Air Force, which hits established Allied air mastery in the South-West Pacific.
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Northern Advocate, 29 June 1944, Page 4
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