“Padres arriving with parachute battalions pass through the same course as the men, and one of the classic remarks which will always be remembered at my school is one attributed to a padre. He is reputed to have said, on the occasion of his first jump, that although all his life he had put his faith in God, it wavered for a few seconds in favour of a W.A.A.F. parachute packer.”—-“Para-chute Training,” a 8.8. C. topical talk by Wing Commander M. A. Newnham, t).F.C.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1943, Page 4
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