SHOT DOWN
IN CHANNEL DOGFIGHT
AMERICAN-BORN PILOT. MAY HAVE MADE LANDING IN FRANCE. (British Official 1 Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY. August 1
Wing Commander Whitney Straight, an American-born Hurricane pilot, was shot down in a dogfight over the Channel today. He is believed by his fellow pilots to have made a forced landing in France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 6
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58SHOT DOWN Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 August 1941, Page 6
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