AIRFIELDS IN NORMANDY
FRENCH SQUADRONS LAND LONDON, June 14. Two French squadrons of the R.A.F., led by a New Zealander, Wing Commander W. Compton, landed at an advanced landing strip in Normandy at dawn yesterday, says Reuter’s correspondent in France. Most of the French pilots had not been in France for four years. They went out on patrol soon after landing. There is another advanced landing strip nearby from which squadrons are operating. There will be airfields soon with permanent wings based on them ready to accommodate damaged bombers and fighters as well as refuel and rearm planes. The R.A.F. is steadily beginning to base itself in France.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25563, 16 June 1944, Page 3
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