R.N.Z.A.F. IN PACIFIC
U.S. GENERAL’S TRIBUTE (PA.) Wellington, Nov. 22. The importance of air attack in the Allied offensive which brought. Japan to her knees is stressed by General I George C. Kenny, United States Army, former commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Pacific, in a letter to the New Zealand Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice-Marshal Isitt, expressing appreciation of the part clayed by the R.N.Z.A.F. in the Pacific war. "It./s with deep gratitude for your magnificent co-operation that I send my last message as Commander of Allied Air Forces in the Pacific,' says General Kenny. “For nearly .cm years we faced some of the toughest going any of our nations ever ex-, perieneed. The Allied air forces will .stand in history’ as a tribute to th” strength that can bo achieved by ITe” peoples when they are united in a just cause.”
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 277, 23 November 1945, Page 3
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