AMERICAN PILOTS
VOLUNTEERS FOR ROYAL AIR FORCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 25. Further parties of young American pilots have just arrived in Britain to form sister squadrons of the original Eagle Squadron. Since the first Eagle fighter squadron of the R.A.F. was formed last autumn, numbers of young Americans have volunteered to fly and fight with the R.A.F. Among the last batch to arrive were United States citizens from Ohio, California. Maryland, Texas and Colorado. Before crossing the Atlantic they had to undergo their initial flying training and pass flying tests as pilots.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 4
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94AMERICAN PILOTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1941, Page 4
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