PER ASTRA AD ARDUA
HERE’LL be no more jesting pilots And no more shooting of lines, And it seems that the whole of the ground staff Can be sent to the pitchblende mines. Rear-gunner and navigator Are shouting, "You've had it chum. There'll be nothing but flipping missiles In the brave new world to come." No more swept-wing moustaches, And in future the D.F.C. Won't go to the Gibsons and Baders, But to Something-or-other Mark Three, For rockets cunningly guided From ground to air, are what We shall need to destroy the bombers
That the enemy hasn't got.
R.G.
P.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 925, 3 May 1957, Page 12
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100PER ASTRA AD ARDUA New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 925, 3 May 1957, Page 12
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