SPITFIRES’ WORK
Straffing Flying-Bomb Nests (Received June 25, 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 24. “It is hard to get them to come home,” said Wing Commander W. V. CrawfordCompton, D. 5.0., D.F.C. and Bar, of Invercargill, leader of a French Spitfire wing, describing today how Spitfire pilots patrolling Normandy battle areas like to go off on their own looking for flyingbomb nests. “We picked up one flying bomb three or four miles off the shore two or three days ago,” he said. “Six Spitfires chased it in line abreast and shot it down.”
\Ving Commander Crawford-Compton said many Spitfire pilots were engaged strafing flying-bomb launching . sites months before D-Day. They were hard to find, concealed in orchards under trees. Another extra job Spitfire piloU are doing is to drop newspapers to the troops. One plane is specially detailed for this job. Wing Commander Crawford-Compton so far has a total of T 7 enemy planes shot down to his credit.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 26 June 1944, Page 4
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158SPITFIRES’ WORK Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 230, 26 June 1944, Page 4
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