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Command, the RCAF's defensive arm against submarine attack, expanded faster in 1959 than in any other year in its 21-year his- tory.

A year-end review issued here Tuesday sald a $14,500,000 build- ing program saw new facilities established at the three east coast bases at Greenwood, N.S., Sum- merside, P.E.I., and Torbay, Nfld.

About 4,000 airmen, airwomen and civil servants now serve in RCAF anti-submarine forces on the Atlantic coast and at Comox; B.C. :

New aircraft were introduced during the year. The giant 148,- 000-pound Arbus submarine hun- ter came into use at Greenwood. Neptune patrol bombers replaced

NEW HANGARS ~

The bulk’ of the construction money was used to build new hangars to house the larger planes at Greenwood and Sum- merside. Work at Greenwood also included 100 housing units for married personnel, three trailer courts, school and water and drainage facilities.

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tance flying record. It flew 4,900 miles from Hawaii to North Bay,

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Maritime Command also car- ried out its usual search and res- cue operations on the tie coast. During 1959 pilots crews took part in 196 missions involving ships, planes, air evacu- ations and miscellaneous emer- gencies.

The year’s largest search was that for the ill-fated Danish ship Hans Hedtoft, which struck an iceberg and sank south of Green-

: ST. PETER’S ANGLICAN RCAF Maritime Air Command Saw Rapid Expansion In ‘59

land Jan. 30. Ninety-five persons | ings.

perished and no” trace of them was found. The week-long hunt

was directed from the RCAF base } ,

at Torbay, Nfld. : Planes of the U.S. and Danish air forces and the U.S. Navy joined RCAF aircraft in the search, assistéd by German, Dan- ish and U.S. ships. ;

MUSEUM DESTROYED LUENEBURG, Germany (AP) Fire Tuesday night destroyed the old trading house here, built more than 300 years ago by the medieval Hanseatic League of merchants. The museum was es-

tablished after the war and in- cluded priceless hunters’ trophies and a collection of valuable paint-

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