AERIAL SOLDIERS
A NEW EXPERIMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, August 22. In connection with the two all-steel planes, each capable of carrying 25 fully equipped soldiers, machine-guns, and ammunition, which the Air Ministry is building, the planes are intended for operations in tropical parts of the Empire. where the chief danger consists of risings among isolated insurrectionary tribes. Forced marches and outposts in hot countries will thus be obviated. The machines will prlobably be first tried in Mesopotamia.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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78AERIAL SOLDIERS Taranaki Daily News, 24 August 1922, Page 5
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