NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
NUMBERS ON WAR SERVICE. RAPID INCREASE IN PROSPECT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 10. Since the war began. New Zealand has sent over to the R.A.F. more than 300 trained pilots and N.C.O.'s and there are now between 000 and 700 airmen from this Dominion in the R.A.F. This number will increase rapidly, for it is estimated that by the end of the year New Zealand will be contributing annually 900 fully-trained and 500 partly-trained pilots as well as 1500 partly-trained observers and gunners to the Empire flying service.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 5
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92NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 5
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