LETHBRIDGE MISSION
COMPILING FULL REPORT ON NECESSARY BRITISH PREPARATION. FOR PARTICIPATION IN PACIFIC WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Having visited all the fighting areas in New Guinea and the Solomons, the British military mission, led by Major-General Lethbridge, is now compiling a full report for submission to the British authorities. General Lethbridge emphasises that the mission was not concerned with strategy or intelligence, but was charged with looking into questions relating to organisation, equipment, training and tactics for the British Army, when, after the defeat of Germany, it was thrown into the war against Japan. It would be impossible to take men who had been fighting in Europe or in North Africa and send them straight to the jungle. That would be murder. Much training and much modification of equipment would be needed —all of which would take time. Discussing air operations in the Pacific, General Lethbridge said much modification and reorganisation would also be needed before the' R.A.F. could fight in this theatre, owing largely to the enormous distances in the Pacific as compared with Europe. *
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19431204.2.37
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
183LETHBRIDGE MISSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 December 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in