Both Spitfires named after Southland because the residents of the province subscribed the funds required for their purchase, have been lost in action. The Southland I machine crashed in the English Channel last April, when Flight-Lieutenant R. H. Strang, of Invercargill, was shot down, and the Southland II machine was shot down on the French coast in May in an engagement over Bouiogne. Pilot -Officer J. M. Checkstts, of Invercargill, who was flying the machine, bailed out and parachuted safely into the Channel and was rescued. V —
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 246, 19 October 1942, Page 6
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