BRITAIN'S AIR CADETS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24831, 3 February 1942, Page 4

BRITAIN'S AIR CADETS

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF CORPS . RUGBY, Feb. 1.. The Secretary for Air, Sir Archibald. Sinclair, has sent the following message to the Air Training Corps through its commandant,. Air Commodore J. Chamier, on the occasion of. the first anniversary'of its. formation:— " The Air Training Corps reaches its first birthday with the knowledge that it has surmounted, the perils of infancy and has taken its place in the support line behind the R.A.F. The corps offered boys a chance to learn the elements of flying, and they seized the chance with boys' hands. The keenest minds among the rising genera, tion were first to enrol, and since last February many thousands of cadets have passed into the R.A.F. or the Fleet Air Arm with their preliminary training already completed. "To all of you I offer my congratulations on the first year's work, and good wishes for the future. lam sure you would wish me also to express your thanks to your officers, instructors, and other helpers, without whose devoted labours you could not reach your goal. The sky is still overcast, but there is a place in the sun above the cloudy canopy for all who can fly high enough to reach it. Boys of your stamp will reach any mark at which you aim, and as you pass on into the ranks of the R.A.F. and the Fleet Air Arm younger brothers, equally keen and hardy, will take your place in the A.T.C."