AIR FORCE AWARD
D.F.C. FOR AUCKLAND PILOT. EIGHT ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) i Received This Day, 10.15 a.mJ LONDON. August 27. R.A.F. awards include the D.F.C. for Pilot-Officer J. A. Gibson, of Auckland. The citation states that, while patrolling over Dover, he engaged and destroyed a Junkers and was afterwards himself shot down. Although his aircraft was in flames, he steered away from Folkestone, not abandoning his aircraft until it descended to 1.000 feet. He has now destroyed eight enemy planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 7
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84AIR FORCE AWARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 August 1940, Page 7
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