AIR DEFENCE
AUSTRALIA’S POWERFUL ORGANISATION STRIKING AND PROTECTIVE FORCES. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, July 23. Australia has never had such a strong air defence as now and theie is not one vital part of the continent not covered by a protective screen of combat aircraft, either American, Australian, or Dutch, Mr Drakeford, the Australian Air Minister, said today. The operations and functional control of the R.A.A.F. had been re-orga-nised, he said, in order to combine all units into a co-ordinated striking force. The direction and conduct of R.A.A.F. operations against the enemy had been placed under R.A.A.F. personnel returned from overseas. Both striking and protective bases had been prepared throughout the country.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1942, Page 4
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120AIR DEFENCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1942, Page 4
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