ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE
Thirty Times Original Strength (Rec. 7 p.m.) CANBERRA, March 3L “Since 1939 the R.A.A.F. has expanded to more than 30 times its ; original strength and it is still growing, ’-'said the Minister for Air, Mr A. S. Drakeford, on the 23rd birthday of the service. He revealed that the weight of bombs dropped in New Guinea by Australian aircraft during the past year had increased seven-fold. On the European front nine per ceht. of the crews battering Germany almost nightly were Australians.' A high proportion of the air crews in India and Burma were also Australians.
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Southland Times, Issue 25328, 1 April 1944, Page 3
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