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SET BY SOUTH AFRICAN AIR FORCE FACTS CITED BY SIR Q- BRAND. WING COMMANDER MALAN’S GALLANT RECORD. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.38 a.m.) RUGBY. August 20. Broadcasting tonight on the occasion of the coming’ of age of the South African Air Force, Vice-Marshal Sir Quinton Brand, himself a distinguished South African, said an indication ol the skill and courage of the members of the S.A.A.F. was the fact that so far 76 South Africans had received awards and at least five had bars to their decorations. The most individually brilliant and successful member of the S.A.A.F., and indeed of the R.A.F., was Wing Commander A. G. Malan, who had been officially credited with 32 enemy aircraft destroyed and at least twenty others damaged or probables.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1941, Page 6
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