DEFENCE OF TURKEY
AIR I-ORCE EXPANSION HINT TAKEN FROM FATE OF POLAND. BRITAIN PROVIDING PLANES K INSTRUCTORS. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. ANKARA, December 14. Turkey is making a spirited effort to organise her air force, largely with British assistance. Poland's speedy devastation under Germany’s aerial superiority has done more to convince the Turks of the need for planes and anti-aircraft defences than years of theorising. British instructors are teaching young officers to fly. Turkey has recently been experimenting with different typos of machines, securing British, German. Polish and American, totalling 225. A hundred new British machines are now being assembled, and French and American have also been ordered.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19391216.2.42
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
108DEFENCE OF TURKEY Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 December 1939, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in