AIRMEN FROM CANADA
INSPECTED BY DOMINIONS SECRETARY VANGUARD OF EMPIRE HOST. TENS OF THOUSANDS TN TRAINING. (British Official Wireless.) .RUGBY, April 4. The Dominions Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, today inspected the first Royal Canadian Air Force squadron to be sent to this country after being recruited and trained in Canada for overseas service. Mr Eden, in congratulating the men, said it was obvious that they had already made so much progress that they were prepared for any task. The men were drawn from all walks of life in Canada and the unity and determination of all Canadian people to stand side by side with the Allies in the common task was-expressed in. their unit. “You are the vanguard of Canada's airmen,” said Mr Eden. “We know that there are now in training in Canada and elsewhere under the great Empire training, scheme tens of thousands of pilots, ground crews and observers who, as times goes on, will play a decisive part in the struggle that lies a heath” -
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 April 1940, Page 5
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