87 GERMAN AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN IN ONE DAY.-A waiting further orders are the pilots of the British Royal Air Force squadron that shot down 37 German aircraft in one day. The squadron is equipped with the new British Defiant machines that German airmen are learning to dread. And can you wonder when one gunner alone accounted for eight of their 'planes?
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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6187 GERMAN AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN IN ONE DAY.-Awaiting further orders are the pilots of the British Royal Air Force squadron that shot down 37 German aircraft in one day. The squadron is equipped with the new British Defiant machines that German airmen are learning to dread. And can you wonder when one gunner alone accounted for eight of their 'planes? Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1940, Page 6
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