The Archive · 1941

Army Air Corps

The Army planes which arrived were only a token force. Until the jungle has been cut, burned, ploughed, rolled into smooth subject tion, planes will have to berth on Port-of-Spain's Piarco airport, alongside the few British trainers there. Not until autumn will the Army be able to move to its own leased sites, stud there with security forces of infantry, article anti-aircraft, Neither the Army nor the Ni today has anything to fight a battle with in Trinidad. But they (and the civilian contract tors who are doing the field work) have got a sense of urgency, a desperate haste, which promises that Trinidad will soon be a spearhead with a point.

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