DOMINION AIR CREWS
More Commissions Likely
LONDON, October 13. Tiic status of New Zealand and Australian members of air crews is 1 ikeiy to be improved as a result of a lortncoming conference in Loudon _ between representatives o£ those two Air I’orces anti the R.A.F., says the Associated Press. Canada, the fourth partner in the Empire Air Scheme, has already departed from the original policy under which commissions were granted to air crew personnel on a fixed percentage of pilots, observers, and others. A Canadian Air Force spokesman said that Canada for some time past had been pursuing a more active policy in giving commissions for alt members of tiir crews than the R.A.I. or any other Dominion. “Tlie Canadian jvolicy is 'that , all air crew personnel shall lie commissioned if it is of commissionable . quality,’ he said. “They have tlie right to appiy for commissions through their commanding officer without necessarily awaiting liis recommendation.” The abolition of the system or commissioning on a percentage basis would remove the most serious obstacle in the way of more commissions for New Zealand and Australian air crews who have earned a status equivalent to that of their American and Canadian comrades.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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199DOMINION AIR CREWS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 17, 15 October 1942, Page 5
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