Airmen Remembered in Apia
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t Colonel Auguere, chief of the New Caledonian Health Service, left by air on September 1 for
Manila (Philippines) to repress French territories in the Pacficj a world international heal* conference. t Eleven Japanese ships enter the port of Noumea in August i get clearances to load nickel J along the coast.
On Sunday, September 16, ex-Air Force men in Apia, W. Samoa, commemorated Battle of Britain Day by a memorial service at the grave of the seven NZ airmen who were killed in 1950 when their Catalina fiying-boat
crashed on a flight from Satapuala seadrome to the Tokelau Islands. The service was con ducted by the Rev. Whonsbon-Aston.
Beside the seven graves is a cairn that bears this plaque erected by the Tokelau Islanders.
Photo: R. F. Rankin.