TO GO INTO ACTION
GIRLS AS A.A. GUNNERS A.TS. girls are to go into action as A.A. gunners at gun posts throughout Great Britain. They will take their place under active service conditions in the day and night Battle of Britain, states the "Sunday Despatch." Picked girls will direct the firing and they will share with men gunners the hardships of gun post life and the dangers of bombing and machine-gunning. Sir Frederick Pile, chief of the A.A. Command, has taken this decision after consultation with the War Office and A.T.B. chiefs. Selection committees of A.A. instructors from training centres visited A.T.S. headquarters throughout the country on May 1 to pick girls suit-
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21992, 18 June 1941, Page 7
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113TO GO INTO ACTION Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21992, 18 June 1941, Page 7
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