THE BURMA SQUADRON - When the Premier of Burma, U SAW, recently visited the squadron of Fighter Command which bears his country's name and whose Hurricanes were purchased with funds raised in his lands, he took the opportunity to present to them a gift for which a place of honour has already been found in the Officers' Mess. It is a silver bowl and teak plinth, specially worked by craftsmen and sent to the Squadron by the "Friends of Burma" an organisation which has adopted them. The silver bowl is ornamented with the signs of the Zodiac, each sign worked at the time of the year when it
THE BURMA SQUADRON - When the Premier of Burma, U SAW, recently visited the squadron of Fighter Command which bears his country's name and whose Hurricanes were purchased with funds raised in his lands, he took the opportunity to present to them a gift for which a place of honour has already been found in the Officers' Mess. It is a silver bowl and teak plinth, specially worked by craftsmen and sent to the Squadron by the "Friends of Burma" an organisation which has adopted them. The silver bowl is ornamented with the signs of the Zodiac, each sign worked at the time of the year when it was in evidence in the Zodiac's calendar. For this reason it is considered in Burma to bring luck to its owners. Also it is of considerable value. Later the Premier was taken on a tour of the East Coast station where the squadron is located. His escort was the Engineer Officer, the only Burmese in the squadron, whose father is professor at Rangoon University. The Premier expressed his delight on learning that the squadron had now passed the half century mark. Picture shows the Premier surrounded by pilots of the Burma Squadron, Royal Air Force
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