AUSTRALIAN IDEA
PLANE “DISINTEGRATOR” CANBERRA, July 29 The idea for the “disintegrator,** the new weapon against Japanese suicide planes, came from Australia. The Canadian High Commissioner’s Office states that this has been announced by the Royal Canadian Navy. Sixty Canadian warships proceeding to the Pacific will carry the new equipment. Three Ontario firms are working day and night producing disintegrators. The Australian idea for disintegrators was sent to Royal Navy headquarters by the Commander-in-Chief of the British Pacific Fleet, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser. Canadian experts took seven days to develop and test the new weapon, and the first disintegrator was installed in a Canadian ship within a month.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19450730.2.39
Bibliographic details
Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22674, 30 July 1945, Page 4
Word Count
108AUSTRALIAN IDEA Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 22674, 30 July 1945, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.