GALLANT AIRMEN
DECORATED BY THE KING. NEW ZEALANDER'S EXPLOITS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, June 28. The king toured R.A.F. fighter stations and decorated pilots, some of whom had just returned from combats. His Majesty decorated 15 airmen, including Pilot-Officer Deere and other Dominion airmen. The fifteen decorated airmen among them had accounted for 115 enemy machines . Pilot-Officer Alan Christopher Deere, aged 22, Auckland, has been awarded lhe Distinguished Flying Cross. During May. Flying-Officer Deere was engaged in seven combats, often against superior numbers. He shot down five planes and assisted in the destruction of others. Once 12 Messerschmitts attacked a training plane which was going to Calais to rescue a squadron leader who had been shot down there. Deere and another pilot who were escorting the training plane immediately fought back and three of the Messerschmitts were shot down and three seriously damaged. Deere displayed courage and determination in all his encounters. lie joined the R.A.F. as a pupil pilot in 1938.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1940, Page 5
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