GALLANT AIRMAN
LEGLESS PILOT SHOOTS DOWN DORNIER. LEADING FIGHTER SQUADRON. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 12. Behind a report that a Royal Air Force Fighter Command pilot who lost both legs in a pre-war air crash shot down a Dornier 17 into the sea recently while piloting a Hurricane lies a human story of pluck and determination. After passing through an air training school with a great reputation for athletic achievement, the pilot was commissioned in the R.A.F. and he crashed heavily after losing control of his machine. As as result both his legs were amputated, one completely and the other at the knee. The pilot was invalided out of the service, but increasing skill in the use of metal legs enabled him to playgames again, and when the war broke out he so impressed the medical board that he persuaded a doctor to send him for a test to the central flying school. The pilot, was there passed for active service with a fighter squadron, and he began flying Spitfires. Now lie is leading a squadron of Canadians.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 6
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