"VERY IMPORTANT PERSONS" AIR SQUADRON
WELLINGTON, Dec. 7. Xcw Zealander ■>, Bou.th Africans and Australians are being trained as air crew in the United Ivingdoin for duty with Nn. 24 Sipiadron of K.A.E. TTansport Command which is in process oi liecoining a fully Conunonwealtli squad-. ron. This v, as stated in an interview by Group Captain Gr. G. O'Grudy who is accompanying the K.A.F. Lancastrian aireraft now at Ohakea on its routine training flight to the Dominion. New Zealanders were filling key positions in Transport Command, he said, and the othcer coiunuvnding No. 24 Conunonwealth Squadron was a Xew Zealander, Wing Commander D. W. lv. Xicholls. Anotlier Xew Zealander. Grou]i Captain Shannon, of Wellington, was responsiblc for training all pilots in Trans])ort Commaud. No. 24 Squadron is known as VIT5 ( very important persons) Squadron and is always on call to fly to any part of the vorld at a moment 's notiie.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 December 1947, Page 7
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