MEN & PLANES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1940, Page 5

MEN & PLANES

FIRST CANADIAN SQUADRON IN BRITAIN HURRICANES BUILT IN DOMINION. GOING INTO ACTION SOON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 27. The first Royal Canadian Air Force fighter squadron to reach this country will soon be in action, using Canadianbuilt Hurricanes. The squadron leader is a veteran with more than 2000 hours to his credit and 10 of the pilots are from the oTiginal No. 1 fighter squadron. Other pilots are auxiliaries from Montreal, while 83 of the ground staff were trained under the Empire training scheme. When the squadron arrived in Britain it was a complete unit —complete with Hurricanes built in Canada and a motor transport section. The auxiliaries from Montreal, like the English and Scottish auxiliaries come from all jobs and every province in the Dominion—rrom Vancouver to t-ianrax, Nova Scotia. They were fully trained on Hurricanes before they left Canada and the present period of final rerresned training is to make doußiy sure when they meet the enemy they will definitely be on top. REPORT DENIED NO ATTACK ON SHIPPING OFF ULSTER COAST. It is authoritatively stated in London that there is no truth whatever in the report of an enemy air attack on a convoy on the coast of Northern Ireland yesterday.