AUCKLAND PILOT
SHOT DOWN EIGHT NAZIS FORCED TO "BALE OUT" (From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, Aug. 26. A New Zealand fighter pilot who has been adding to the total of Nazi aircraft shot down in the battle for Britain is Flying Officer J. A. A. Gibson (Auckland). He has now shot down eight Germans and he had to " bale out" himself the other day. ( "As I was coming out of my dive,' he said, "I got on the tail of another German bomber and sprayed it with machine gun bullets. I saw bits and pieces falling away from the bomber. Then I found that my Hurricane had been seriously damaged by machine gun fire. , " For the first time in my life I was forced to bale out when only 1000 feet above the land." He was uninjured, and within a few hours was back at his aerodrome. Flying Officer Gibson is married to Miss Ethel Formby. sister of the wellknown English comedian. He met her at a cabaret at Blackpool, where she was performing, and after their wedding they declared it was a case of love at first sight.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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189AUCKLAND PILOT Otago Daily Times, Issue 24406, 18 September 1940, Page 6
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