New Zealander Joins Personnel Of U.S. Air Force

Wanganui Chronicle, 29 April 1950, Page 4

New Zealander Joins Personnel Of U.S. Air Force

AUCKLAND, Yesterday (PA).— Brian Colebrook, a former New Zealander, Is joining the United States Air Force today, reports a New York cable. He was a motion picture operator for American servicemen in a camp near Wairoa, Hawke’s Bay, during the last war. He liked America and decided he would not let up until he was wearing the same kind of uniform. He worked for a film distributing agency In Auckland after Ihe war and joined the aero club and got his "wings.” He filed an intention to go to the United Slates in November, 1947, and two years later his ap plication was approved. He sailed from Lyttelton in January last an engine-room hand. He later stayed with friends on Long Island, awaiting the big day. Colebrook was educated at Kaitala. He is the second youngest son in r, family of four boys and a girl. His father, Mr. John Mangan Colebrook, when told of the New York cable in Kaitia today by telephone, said: “At the start we tried to talk him out o f that business—his mother thought America was too far away, but it was his ambition ,and in the end we did not stop him . He will do all right.”

The cable described Colebrook ns “a former intelligence specialist in the New Zealand Ai“ Force.” ‘That’s news to me,” said Mr. Colebrook.