Post by Dave Homewood on May 28, 2020 16:05:06 GMT 12
AIR TRAINEES
"WINGS" AT OHAKEA
O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day.
References to the standard of training in the R.N.Z.A.F. were made by Air Commodore A. de T. Nevill, C.8.E., Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, at a wings presentation ceremony at Ohakea. It was the largest function of its kind yet held at Ohakea, 39 air-gunners, flight engineers, and navigators receiving their "wings."
Air Commodore Nevill said the standard of training compared favourably with similar tuition overseas. As the standards were so high, there followed, of necessity, a wastage in regard to men who could not make the grade. The men, he added, still had a long way to go, as they had not yet done their operational training, which called for a high standard of teamwork, upon which depended the safety of both aircraft and crew.
He had seen New Zealanders in Europe, the Middle East, and in the Pacific, and conditions in the last-named area were as hard as those elsewhere. The services of the men would take them to the Pacific, and it was possible they would be supporting military operations. The R.N.Z.A.F. still had a big part to play in that area.
Those receiving "wings" were Pilot Officers J. S. Dennison, B. H. Stinear, H. J. von Dadelszen, Sergts. E. R. Bader, H. C. Childs, P. R. Dunn, R. H. Harvey, M. O. Heenan. R. C. Rogers, J. P. Sinclair, R. L. Webb, J. L. Bowler, G. Dorreen, T. G. Haines, E. A. Hodgson, W. A. Maskill, E. W. Sinton, G. F. Vaughan, G. C. Bennett, F. R. Goodwin, A. A. Kerridge, S. Leong, J. R. Le Vesque, G. D. Postlewaight, J. C. Stenhouse, W. J. Woollacott. H. Worthington, I. C. Pilkington, P. Ragg, .R. E. Rooderkirk, B. W. Stent, R. L. Parsons, L. H. Stokes, L. R. Claridge, R. P. Smithson, J. S. Lennie, J. R. Godwin, K. C. Durrant, and E. P. Hilary.
EVENING POST, 3 MARCH 1945
"WINGS" AT OHAKEA
O.C. PALMERSTON N., This Day.
References to the standard of training in the R.N.Z.A.F. were made by Air Commodore A. de T. Nevill, C.8.E., Vice-Chief of the Air Staff, at a wings presentation ceremony at Ohakea. It was the largest function of its kind yet held at Ohakea, 39 air-gunners, flight engineers, and navigators receiving their "wings."
Air Commodore Nevill said the standard of training compared favourably with similar tuition overseas. As the standards were so high, there followed, of necessity, a wastage in regard to men who could not make the grade. The men, he added, still had a long way to go, as they had not yet done their operational training, which called for a high standard of teamwork, upon which depended the safety of both aircraft and crew.
He had seen New Zealanders in Europe, the Middle East, and in the Pacific, and conditions in the last-named area were as hard as those elsewhere. The services of the men would take them to the Pacific, and it was possible they would be supporting military operations. The R.N.Z.A.F. still had a big part to play in that area.
Those receiving "wings" were Pilot Officers J. S. Dennison, B. H. Stinear, H. J. von Dadelszen, Sergts. E. R. Bader, H. C. Childs, P. R. Dunn, R. H. Harvey, M. O. Heenan. R. C. Rogers, J. P. Sinclair, R. L. Webb, J. L. Bowler, G. Dorreen, T. G. Haines, E. A. Hodgson, W. A. Maskill, E. W. Sinton, G. F. Vaughan, G. C. Bennett, F. R. Goodwin, A. A. Kerridge, S. Leong, J. R. Le Vesque, G. D. Postlewaight, J. C. Stenhouse, W. J. Woollacott. H. Worthington, I. C. Pilkington, P. Ragg, .R. E. Rooderkirk, B. W. Stent, R. L. Parsons, L. H. Stokes, L. R. Claridge, R. P. Smithson, J. S. Lennie, J. R. Godwin, K. C. Durrant, and E. P. Hilary.
EVENING POST, 3 MARCH 1945
