The coastal command is virtually a complete air force in itself, te five main types of alreratt—general 1 connaissance, torpedo bombers, long-range fighters bombers and photographic reconnaissance, The Dutch naval air services have been helping Jand Polish and Belgian pilots special ly trained in the work of the coastal command. There are also Yormidable [Sunderland squadrons of Royal JAustralian Air Force which have been operating. from Britain for some months. Behind operational. groups fof command are training groups of the R.A.P, who give British pilots and crews the finest training in.the world, strikes. One of our difficulties is to. convince some of those neutral coun~ tries in Europe that we are going to win, We think it is astonishing that they should be so dense as not to see it os clearly as we do ourselves."
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