FEARLESS PILOT
LOW-DIVING ATTACKS IN LIBYA ON ENEMY PLANES & TRANSPORT. RETURN WOUNDED TO BRITISH LINES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) RUGBY, May 19. Splendid pluck and endurance were shown by a pilot officer engaged in an attack on the aerodrome at Gazala, in Libya. Diving very low, with a total disregard of heavy ground fire, he sprayed two large enemy aircraft on the ground until they were destroyed. He then swooped on to a concentration of mechanised transport, braving ?. hail of ma-chine-gun bullets. He received wounds in the head and shoulders and was losing blood rapidly when he turned his aircraft towards the Egyptian frontier, 250 miles away. Lacking sufficient strength to reach his squadron's base, he made a successful landing within the British lines, where he fainted as he was helped from the cockpit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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