US Honours Fiji-

Indian Airman

AFIJI-INDIAN, Bisun Dutt, won an unusual honour recently when he was selected “Airman of the Month” at the Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, US.

The base commander, Col. Francis C. Gideon, said that the award was “for demonstrated capabilities and conscientious effort in application to duties which have been an inspira tion to others.”

Col. Gideon wrote to the air craftman’s mother, Mrs. Durga Dutt, of Samabula, Suva to this effect. (The above, from a Fiji source, does not explain the most interes ting point of all: How did the Boy from Samabula get into the US air

force?

Pim Ed.