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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 296, 16 December 1942, Page 1

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PACIFIC FORCES DOMINION’S PART CONSTANT AIR PATROLS (Official War Correspondent with N.Z. Forces.) New Zealanders are serving actively in increasing strength along the South Pacific battle front. Sailors, ; soldiers and airmen form a growing 5 junior partnership with the armed , lorces ot the United States. Every day, from the mugggy heat of ’ tropic island airfields, reconnaissance ’ bombers ot the Royal New Zealand 5 Air Force are scouring thousands of ) miles of ocean and coastline. Their ) task is to find and destroy enemy 5 ships, warning of hostile movements, . and to escort our own vessels safely ’ in and out of port. r Navy Also Active. ) Our impressive contribution to the . Pacilic war does not stop there. ) . found big and little ships of our Navy ! equally busy with convoy duties, ’ mine-sweeping and anti-submarine . patrols far to the east, west and nortn along the supply routes. 5 I saw monumental defence and ; storage works which had been carried . j out by the Pacific section of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and New Zealand gun batteries in battle stations at various vital points. I saw drops in the big bucket of our contribution to the gigantic problem of supply; hundreds of tons of New Zealand beef, mutton, butter, bacon and eggs swinging out of the holds of . snips at island ports to feed Americans and New Zealanders who are serving side by side. At present our major contribution to Allied operations in the Pacific is in the form ol air power. Considering the numbers of New Zealand airmen serving in Britain, the Middle East and New Zealand, and our share in the Empire air training scheme, the support we are giving to the United States forces is already most impressive. Relations With Americans. Moreover, there is no reason to assume that our effort in the Pacilic has reached its peak in the air, on the land or at sea. The future will inevitably see increasingly wide New Zealand participation in the war against Japan. Relations between the New Zealanders and Americans are happy, and I found more respect and admiration among United States authorities for the Dominion’s general war effort than are shown in some quarters at home. The forces of both nations have been extremely helpful to each other and at. our most distant bases, where New Zealanders are working most closely under United States command, 1 often heard it said that the Americans could not do enough for them. The comment, applied to administrative and personal affairs alike. Unceasing Watch by Air Forces. In the Fiji area, where the Dominion set up air and land defences early in the war, New Zealanders still play an important part in the control of air operations. The air stag officer on the staff of the American commanding officer is a New Zealand group captain and air headquarters there is largely staffed by New Zealanders. Throughout the South Pacific our highly-trained air forces are busy from dawn to dark in all weathers and under all conditions on operations never jyientioned in communiques. Their regular long range patrols, their constant escort tasks, and their unceasing watch over threatened seas and shores have so much taken the form of routine that they seldom reach the notice of the public. Camp in Jungle. Most of the time the work is monotonous and uneventful, but from our airmen it calls for all the reliability, navigational skill and painstaking maintenance of equipment for which New Zealand servicemen are traditionally famed. Service conditions vary from the well-established stations to bases newly cleared from the jungle on tropic islands. Such luxuries as huts, showers, picture shows and beer are as yet non-existent in the latter. For instance, the New Zealanders at one point carved their camp site out of dense tropical bush. Fresh water has to be carried from a distilling plant and bores, and almost every meal is delivered in a fan. 8.8. C. BRAINS TRUST QUEST FOR WISE MEN Londoi.. Six wise men are wanted for the Brans Trust when it returns to the 8.8. C. Home and Forces programmes in October, declares a Daily Mail writer. The number of “residents” will be increased from 3 to 9. Huxley, Joad and Campbell will continue, but will be heard only once in three weeks. A new feature in the programme will be a delayed reply. The Brains Trust is io be given a piece of homework. There will be set. at the end of each session, a question to be answered a week later. Once a month there will be a Transatlantic Brains Trust, and once during the winter it is hoped to have a Transpacific Brains Trust, with "guests” speaking from Australia. Programmes will be broadcast regularly to North America, the Near East, and Australasia. Who the six wise men will I*' the 8.8. C. has not yet decided, but it is expected that invitations will be sent to Dr. Malcolm Sargeant, who is regarded as Brains Trust personality No. 1, to versatile Col. Walter Elliott, and to Professor J. D. Bernal, who has been described as the wisest man on earth.” Otherwise, the 8.8. C. is searching for specialists in applied science, having been considerably stivg by comments on the failure of the Brains Trust to give precise answers to questions about tractors, submarinecables, zip-fasleners. and wire-wprm. On the other hand, if every were to be fully covered, there flight be a thousand “residents.’ ’ That, it is felt, might lead to the elimination of the favourite “gags."— “It all depends what you mean," and ‘When I was in Patagonia.” The Brains Trust is in the market for more wisdom, but it does not wish to put an end to argument, the most popular questions having been: “W’hy do cattle rise hind legs first and horses forelegs first?” and “How do flies land on the ceiling?” Each of those brought more than 1000 letters, with nearly 1000 answers.

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