CANADIAN AIR HERO
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD V.C. Ottawa, Jnly 0. Sir Robert Borden has congratulated Captain AV. A. Bishop, a Canadian, aged nineteen, who has received the Victorian Cross, the D.5.0., and tlie Military Cross. . He •■ fought fifty-seven victorious air battles, exceeding the record of Captain Ball,, the British airhero. Captain Bishop, single-handed, fought an entire aerodrome of German airmen, destroyed four, and returned unhurt, but with his machine riddled with bullets. His record of destruction to date is twenty-one aeroplanes and two balloons.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 5
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84CANADIAN AIR HERO Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3131, 9 July 1917, Page 5
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