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Pacific Islands Monthly, 17 August 1943Vol. XIV, No. 1

Fiji Airman Missing

p. 32 · Read in the full issue

rE toll of war mounts; scarcely a day passes without one or more of our young Islands’ men becoming battle casualties.

Advice has been received that Flying- Officer A. J. Davis, formerly of the Fiji Treasury Department, and son of Mr. J.

J. Davis, of Suva Point, has been posted as missing, after air operations over Germany on June 24-25.

He left the Colony in April, 1941, with a contingent of RAF recruits, and com pleted his training in Rhodesia. Later, he was posted to Bomber Command in England and just recently was attached to a Pathfinder unit. (Pathfinders are those planes that lead the bombers to their targets and start the attack.)