The Archive · 1941

At an RAW, Fighter Station

Mar. 19.

Pilots. anxious to debunie the quip that they are glamour boys of the RAF, and whose one desire is to make' their squadron one of which Britain and America will be proud. form the persond of the American Eagle squadron, 'No Nazi plane came ghelr way while '2, Reuter's Correspondent was there. 'The enemy no longer takes up all their' time over Britain. and. the Jequadron have yet to bring down their rst victim as a squadron, Reerults, coming in fast enough to form a second Eagle squadron, ore now completing operational training in England, The squadron's tale of impatient longing to Jet at the enemy is the new ery of many hundreds of veteran British and Allied. fighter pilots whose yanks these young "Americans have joined, The Hurricanos with which they are equipped will help to make the American Eagles play their part ju operations which will no longer be confined to metropolitan defence, for the enemy must now be sought more often far out to sea and quite often beyond the continental coastline, The squadron will operate in exact ly the same way us other fighter squadrons of the RAP. "And great things are expected of this shy but determined band of America's frst war pilots—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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