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438630		Flight Sergeant Ronald Wilfred ALBRECHT
Parents	:	Mr. & Mrs. John G. ALBRECHT of Palmerston North

Ronald Albrecht was born in Palmerston North on April 30th 1924
and educated at Hokowhitu and the Palmerston North Technical High
School. At the time of his enlistment in the Royal New Zealnd Air
Force he was a member of the Signal Corps in the Territorials at
Linton. He was attested on June 19th 1943 at Harewood and trained as
a Pilot. After elementary training at Tauranga, Delta and Rotorua
Flight Sergeant Albrecht did his first solo flight at Harewood on
December 28th 1943. Proceeding to the Service Flying Training School
at Woodbourne in February, 1944, he trained on Harvard aircraft, gaining
his Flying Badge on April 17th 1944. After a short N.C.O. Course he was
posted to No. 4 Fighter Operational Training Unit at Ohakea towards the
end of July, and became a Kittyhawk pilot. In September he passed
on to the Ardmore Conversion Unit, where, after a month on Corsairs he
became a pilot of No. 16 Squadron. He proceeded with this Fighter Squad-
ron to Henderson Airfield at Guadalcanal on November 24th and a month
later to Green Island. There he was engaged on Fighter cover for Rabaul
patrols, straffing operations, and combined strikes.

Flight Sergeant Albrecht was a pilot of a Corsair Fighter air-
craft which dived into the sea while engaged on air operations during
bad visibility, midway between Feni and Green Island, on January 15th
1945, Flight Sergeant Albrecht being classified as missing, believed
killed on the above date.

5/2/18378 A.S.2.		Mrs. L. M. Albrecht,
No log book.		College Street,
		PALMERSTON NORTH