PILOT’S DARING
4 ITALIAN PLANE DESTROYED BY GUNLESS MAC!UN E. Before leaving on a reconnaissance (flight over Libya, a pilot found his one and only gun had jammed. He left it behind and flow off entirely unarmed. He flow low over Italian gun emplacements and aerodromes, dodged enemy fighters, and began his return trip well satisfied will) results. Flying high to avoid molestation, he was nearly home when, far below, he spotted a huge Italian bomber.
‘Hold light.' he yelled to his observer. "I'm going to attack.” Down screamed the plane, straight for the bomber. II was suicide. Unless the R.A.F. pilot pulled cut a crash was inevitable. First one. then another of the bomber's crew baled cut. Within an ace cf ramming the bomber the British pitot swung out cf his dive. Ho was in time to see the bomber crash and burst info flames.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1941, Page 7
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