AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN
GREAT WORK IN LAST WAR ENEMY MACHINES DESTROYED INSPIRING MEMORIES REVIVED (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 23, 1 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 22 The prompt offer of Australia to send an air expeditionary force revives memories of the line record of Australian airmen during the last war. Some 4uo pilots, 150 observers and 40 other officers served in the Australian flying corps. Seventy-eight were killed, 68 wounded and 33 taken prisoner. Sixty of their machines were destroyed by enemy action, Dut they destroyed no fewer than 276 enemy machines and drove down 251.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 8
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93AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20917, 23 September 1939, Page 8
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