BIG AIR ARMADA
Returning Personnel From Far East (7.10 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 2. To brir 10.000 troops and prisoners of war from the Far East back to Britain within four weeks is the biggest job the R.A.F. Transnort Command has vet tackled, says the “Daily Express.” The job began yesterday when the first of 350 reconditioned converted fourengined bombers took off from English airfields. Many new crews have been go-opted to speed up the service. Each plane will take about a week to cover the 5000 miles from Britain to the main assembly points in India, to which men have been flown from the South-east Asia Command bases. The air armada on the outward trip will carry replacement troops to fill gaps caused by the thousands coming home. It is intended that the big li f ( shall continue until the end of the year with an average of 10.000 members of the Services being carried to and from Britain and the Far East a month.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23321, 3 October 1945, Page 5
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165BIG AIR ARMADA Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23321, 3 October 1945, Page 5
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