MEN WITH A MISSION
CRUSADERS OF THE AIR. Writing of the Royal Air Force personnel, Mr Beverley Baxter, M.P., states: Let me put it in the words of a very understanding Air Force officer of high rank and broad experience. “These fellows who come to us in this war,” he said, “are different from any I have ever seen before. The only way I can describe it is that they are men with a mission. There is something going on inside their souls that is a closed book to those of us who belong to an older generation. They are not cruel, but they are relentless. They seem to see in the German Air Force the absolute expression of the scientific domination which Hitler would enforce on the world if he should win. These chaps fight as if it were not a war at all, but a crusade. They look up at the skies as if they have been called upon to cleanse them of something vile and obscene. And they simply do not believe in the possibility of defeat.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 8
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180MEN WITH A MISSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 November 1940, Page 8
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