AIR CO-OPERATION
CONDITIONS OF CONTROL IN VARIOUS WAR THEATRES. STATEMENT BY MR CHURCHILL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.52 a.m.) RUGBY, July 21. The Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, was asked in the House of Commons whether a ruling would be given that R.A.F. machines taking part in naval operations should come under the supreme control of the senior naval officer conducting an operation, as in the case of land operations they come under the control of the army commander. Mr Churchill replied: “In the Middle East, during active military opeiations,' the general working in closest association with the air commander is the directing power. Aircraft cooperating with the fleet conform strictly to naval requirements and movements. In the interval between land and sea operations, ample opportuni-< ties for discussion and agreement between the three commanders-in-chief are provided by a meeting under the presidency of the Minister of State. Quite a different arrangement prevails at Home, where, for the purposes of the north-western approaches and the Narrow Seas, the Admiralty is predominant. The authority in this case is the Coastal Command, under the operation and control of the Admiralty and questions relative to the strength of the Coastal and Bomber Commands are decided by the Minister of Defence or by the Defence Committee. In other theatres of war arrangements are made to jneet the particular conditions there existing, i having regard principally to the predominant character of the operations.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1942, Page 3
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