IN BUSY SQUADRON

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 20, 19 October 1942, Page 6

IN BUSY SQUADRON

New Zealanders Flying Latest Fighters (By Telegraph,—Press Assn.— Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) (Received ■October 18, 10.30 p.m.) VONDON, October 17. Five New Zealanders who are flying and fighting together from, a famous R.A.F. aerodrome near London are Squadron Leader J. R.' C. Kilian, Christchurch, Flight l Lieutenant L. I’. Griffith, D.F.C., Levin, Pilot Officer D. A. Piggott, Auckland, Sergeant Pilots W. W. Peet, Dannevirke, and F. E. Livesey, Christchurch. Kilian, an old Christ College boy, commands a squadron which is flying one of the latest types of fighter aircraft. He has been in the United Kingdom about a year, in which he achieved his present rank. He was playing cards with the rest' of the 'boys on “readiness” when seen. Tip has a lively, busy squadron, in which British, New Zealanders and Canadians are teaming splendidly.

Kilian is one of the quietest men on the station, 'but is officially credited with one plane destroyed and one probable. H e also shared the destruction of a second. ■- ’ ' s

■Griffith, who is at present undergo-. ing specialized gunnery instruction from Wing Commander A. G. Malan, the R.A.F.'s top-scorer with 35 enemy planes, has two probables and four damaged to his credit. The others are shaping .well.