FIVE NEW SQUADRONS
—-- Metropolitan Air Force (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 6. The formation of five new squadrons announced in the latest Air Ministry orders will, within the next few 'days, increase the strength of the Metropolitan Air Force (home defence, coastal jcomma'nd and army cooperation units) to 113 squadrons, or only ten below the number schedulted for completion under the Royal Air Force expansion programme. Once the 123 squadrons are in being, individual squadron aircraft armament will be increased to augment the aggregate first line strength of the metropolitan force to 1750 aero planes. The present first line strength is about 1400 planes. Four of the five new units l I’ill be armed with bombing .aeroplanes, three with medium bombers and one with “heavies.” The fifth unit is the strength of the general reconnaissance squadrons, units created during the past two years.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 427, 7 May 1937, Page 5
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143FIVE NEW SQUADRONS Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 427, 7 May 1937, Page 5
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