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NEW ZEALAND FIGHTERS & BOMBERS. WING COMMANDER OLSON’S APPOINTMENT. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) (Special P.A. Correspondent). LONDON, April 9. Air Vice-Marshal H. W. L. Saunders, formerly Chief of the Air Staff in New Zealand and now Air Officer Administrative at the Fighter Command, recently visited the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron. He was promoted from air commodore shortly after his return to Britain. Wing Commander E. G. Olson, of New Plymouth, is now commanding the New Zealand Bomber Squadron. His appointment was most popular with the New Zealanders, who naturally prefer a New Zealander for their commanding officer. The squadron still has fewer New Zealanders than it might have, but efforts are being made to draft in more. Wing Commander Olson recently accompanied Wing Commander T. O. Freeman, D. 5.0., D.F.C., of Dunedin, on the big raid on Lubeck.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 April 1942, Page 2
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