FIGHTING TOGETHER

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20918, 19 October 1942, Page 3

FIGHTING TOGETHER

FIVE NEW ZEALANDERS BUSY SQUADRON i. 9 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 18. Five New Zealanders flying and lighting together from a famous Royal Air Force aerodrome near London are Squadron Leader J. R. C. Kilian, of. Chiistchurch, Flight Lieutenant L. P. Griffith, D.F.C., of Levin, Pilot Officer D. A. Piggott, of Auckland, Sergeant Pilot W. W. Peet, of Dannevirke, and Sergeant Pilot F. E. Livesey. of Christchurch. Squadron Leader Kilian, an old Christ’s College boy, commands the squadron, which is flying one of the latest types of fighter aircraft. He lias been in the United Kingdom for about a year, in which he has achieved his present rank. He was playing cards with the rest of the boys on “readiness” when seen. He has a lively, busy squadron, in which Britons, New Zealanders and Canadians are teaming splendidly. •

Squadron Leader Kilian is one of the quietest men on the station, but he is officially credited with one plane destroyed and one probable. He also shared in the destruction of a second.

Flight-Lieutenant Griffith, who is at present undergoing specialised gunnery instruction from Wing Commander A. G. Malan, the Royal Air Force’s top-scorer with 35 enemy planes, has two probables and four damaged to his credit.