AIR STRENGTH
EXPANSION IN AUSTRALIA ahead of schedule. FEDERAL PRIME MINISTER’S REVIEW. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.40 a.rn.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Federal Prime Minister (Mr .1. A. Lyons) hi a review of defence policy, announced that Australia’s firstline air strength would be increased to 212 planes and that nine hundred more men would be added to the Air personnel in the next three years. At present the first line strength was 132 machines. The full strength of the force would not be revealed, but progress in building it up was ahead of schedule. -
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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97AIR STRENGTH Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1939, Page 6
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