PILOT'S GALLANTRY
PRACTICAL APPRECIATION FIGHTER PLANE FUND STARTED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 25. The people of the Kentish market town near which Pilot-officer Millington came down, showed instant appreciation of his gallantry. They have started a fighter fund. They had seen the Hurricane coming down with flames darting from it. No sooner had it landed south of the town, states an Air Ministry bulletin, than the petrol tanks exploded. The pilot just scrambled to safety with slight head injuries. The same afternoon another fighter pilot—a squadron leader, who had destroyed one, probably two, of the Messerschmitt 109 planes—landed near the same town by parachute with an injured foot and soaked with petrol. While his wound was being dressed the police put his narachute on show a_nd began collecting for the town's Spitfire fund.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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134PILOT'S GALLANTRY Otago Daily Times, Issue 24414, 27 September 1940, Page 8
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