NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
PARTICIPATION IN EVERY MAJOR OPERATION SINCE OUTBREAK OF WAR. STATEMENT BY MR FRASER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, July 30. New Zealanders had participated in every major air operation since the first leaflets were dropped on Germany. said the New Zealand Premier (Mr Fraser) in an interview at Edinburgh. At the outbreak of war there were 450 New Zealanders in the Royal Air Force. Now there were over 2,000. A New Zealand night fighter pilot brought . clown three German fighters and four bombers in Tyneside’s fiercest blitz. Mr Fraser met twelve New Zealanders at the Victoria League Club in Edinburgh. During a visit to an East Scotland shipyard, where vessels had been built for New Zealand. Mr Fraser thanked the workers for helping, not only the United Kingdom, but the Dominions. Undue emphasis on defects, delinquencies and absenteeism, he said, might give a wrong impression, but what he had' seen had given him the greatest possible encouragement.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1941, Page 6
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163NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 July 1941, Page 6
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