SERVICE OVERSEAS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 125, 29 May 1942, Page 5

SERVICE OVERSEAS

Airmen Posted To Duties In Middle East AX ORDEAL IX HOXOLI'LU Special Correspondent. Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, May Pilot-Officers H. L. Thomas, of Auckland, and L. J. Frecklington. of Ohakea, former members of the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron, who went to Aden last October as instructors, have now been posted to the R A F headquarters in the Middle East. They expect to operate over the \\ estern Desert.

Pilot-Officer B. Ingram, of Dunedin, operating in Malta, has definitely destroyed three enemy planes. An Aucklander, Mr. D. J. Evre, who spent two years and a half in Honolulu, saw the Japanese bombing Pearl Harbour. He is a sublieutenant training in the R.N.V.R., which he joined at Halifax before coming on to England. "I and my wife,'' he said, "were about to go for a drive out of Waikiki when we saw anti-aircraft gunfire over Pearl Harbour. We returned home and watched the attack from a hill, but saw little besides smoke until a solitary Japanese plane flew 300 feet above the house It dropped a bomb which hit a Japanese drug store in the suburbs." Mr. Eyre was a member of the Auckland branch of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and is a son of the late Mr. Richard Eyre formerly Mayor of Ngaruawahia.