AIR FORCE EXPANSION
Casualties To Personnel
A year of exceptional expansion, particularly in the development of additional operational units in the Dominion, is reviewed in the report on the Royal New Zealand Air Force for the year ended March 31, 1942, by the Chief of Air Staff, Air Commodore R. V. Goddard, presented in the House of Representatives. It states that the enlistment of personnel has proceeded satisfactorily, though there has been some difficulty in maintaining adequate reserves, of certain classes of volunteers for technical trades. The casualties to personnel since the outbreak of war up to March 31, 1942, are as follows, the comparative figures as at March 31. 1941, being given in parentheses: —Killed. 529 (15G); missing believed killed, 51 (20) ; missing, 13a (59); prisoners of war or interned, 132 (50); missing believed prisoners of war, •6 J (nil) ; total, 853 (285). < During the year there were 30 fatal flying accidents involving the loss of 54 lives. Two lives were lost in falls from aircraft, four deaths were recorded in non’-service accidents and two deaths were due to natural causes.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 8
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182AIR FORCE EXPANSION Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 25, 24 October 1942, Page 8
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