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Show A lJ i 1 4 rCAF CARRIES THE WAR 'ROUND THE WORLD j I r'npwu. An American-built Consolidated "Catalina" flying boat undergoing repairs re-pairs at a picturesque R.C.A.F. base In Ceylon, India. (Above) This map shows the far-flung points In the world where Royal Canadian Air Force personnel are located. YOUN(i Canadians wearing the badge of the Royal Canadian Air Force are flying and fighting In most of the theatres of war around the world. The roundels on the map above show the amazing distribution of R.C.A.F. personnel. These on the map of Canada mark the training and operational command com-mand headquarters. Squadrons and other formations of the R.C.A.F are located in the United Kingdom, the Middle East and in Ceylon. At other indicated points, large numbers num-bers of officers and men of the R.C.A.F. are serving with R.A.F. units. In Alaska formations of the R.C.A.F. are serving with the United States Army Air Forces. Spring of 1943 was a period of hammer blows, smashing out of the air to cripple the Nazi war economy. By day and by night centres cen-tres of Axis industry and transportation transpor-tation felt the strength of growing United Nations air power. German war plants are being transferred to the east and to the south in an effort ef-fort to escape beyond the range of the Lancasters and Halifaxes. Planes of the R.C.A.F. bomber group participated in the largest night operation of the year when more than 600 bomber aircraft struck at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia and Mannheim and Ludwigshafen in Germany. It was good bombing weather, and the attack had a deviating dev-iating effect on two of the enemy's largest and most impor-h impor-h armament centres. :ere are about 38 R.C.A.F. squadrons serving in the United Kingdom and elsewhere. A majority of R.C.A.F personnel person-nel overseas Is serving with R.A.F. squadrons. R.A.F units in every part of the world Include Canadian personnel. Canadians make up one quarter of the "Flying garrison" of Malta. The 1,000th Axis aircraft destroyed de-stroyed by a Malta-based plane was shot down on April 28 by Squadron Leader John Lynch of Alhambra, Calif., a U. S.-born R.C.A.F. flier. About 2,000 Canadian airmen are taking part tn the air battles over I the deserts of the Middle East. In a fierce air qombat over Tunisia v on April 20, Sergeant Michael Askey of Winnipeg, a 20-year-old R.C.A.F. pilot shot down three enemy aircraft Flight Lieutenant James Francis Edwards, 21, has destroyed de-stroyed 10 enemy aircraft over the Tunisian desert. R.C.A.F. reconnaissance squadrons squad-rons continue their fight against submarines along the Canadian coast. On April 26 Canadians carried car-ried out two of the 13 attacks on Kiska in the Aleutians, a U.S. Navy Department communique stated. |