SECRET FIGHTERS
’Planes For Australia Ordered United Press Association—By Electrie Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, June 22. The Minister of Defence (Mr G. A. Street) has announced that Australia has placed an order with Britain tor a squadron of extremely powerful fighting aeroplanes. The machines, wliich are stated to be superior in performance to any existing fighters in the British Empire, are still on the secret list. The Federal Government expects delivery’ in a year.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 9
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72SECRET FIGHTERS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 9
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