HAWKER HURRICANES
SINGLE SQUADRON’S SIGNAL SUCCESS SEVERAL heinkels shot down TWO DAYS' ENGAGEMENTS. (Received This Day, 10.52 a.m.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 4. On S:it iirdnv a sinp'le squadron of Hawker llnrrieanes was responsible for shoolin.tr down two .Heinkels, crippling a third and chasing away a foiirt h. (In Ihe previous Tuesday two of Hie pilots attacked a couple of Heinkels off the Northumbrian eoast and saw one enemy plane dive into the sea and break up.
This squadron was thus responsible for the destruction of three out of the four raiders known to have been destroyed in two days' engagements, and it will bo remembered that the R.A.F. counts as destroyed only those seen to crash and not those, no mat,ter how badly damaged, that manage to evade a coup de grace, but nevertheless do not get back to their bases. Between 1916 and 1918. the predecessors of this squadron brought down 149 Gorman aircraft in France. The personnel includes a flight-lieutenant from South Africa and a flying officer from New Zealand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1940, Page 6
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