NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN
PROMOTED WING COMMANDER. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) LONDON, February 7. After being posted Flight Commander for seven months, Squadron Leader D. M. Brass, Wellington, has been promoted Squadron Commander, with the rank of Wing Commander. He spent eight months in Canada and the United States early in the war on a special navigation course, and later served as a navigation officer at a reconnaissance school. Wing Commander Brass has flown more than 1500 hours, of which more than 500 were on operations. He is now on his second tour. His squadron has had several successes against U-boats. He was educated at Southland Boys’ High School, Invercargill. Before joining the Air Force he was in the Meteorological Office, Wellington.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1944, Page 3
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