D.S.O. FOR BUERLING.
MALTA'S ACE FIGHTER-PILOT.
B.O.W.
RUGBY, Oct. 22.
Malta's outstanding , fighter, 21-year-old Pilot Officer G. F. Beurling, the destroyer of 28 enemy aircraft, who already possessed the D.F.C. and a bar to the D.F.M., has been awarded the D.S.O. He is now in hospital with a wounded heel. Up to last Monday there had been 1660 bombing attacks on Malta and 1069 enemy aircraft had been destroyed. Up to September 20 some 1386 civilians had been killed and 6704 buildings destroyed or damaged. Sir Archibaid Sinclair, the Air Secretary, made this statement in the House of Commons.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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99D.S.O. FOR BUERLING. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 5
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