VALIANT PILOT
SOUTH AFRICAN SERVING IN RUSSIA DESTROYER OF THIRTY NAZI PLANES. TRIBUTE PAID BY MOSCOW RADIO. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, October 5. The Moscow radio told the life story of Pilot Officer A. G. Lewis, D.F.C. and bar, a 23-year-old South African who is serving with the Royal Air Force in Russia. The radio described hirn as a “worthy son of the courageous British people and the destroyer of 30 Nazi planes.” It added that often German pilots would combine forces to hunt him with a dozen planes simultaneously. (Lewis destroyed five, seven and six planes in. three days last year. He was seriously burnt and obliged to bale out last October when his plane caught fire). A correspondent of the Moscow “Pravda,” describing British Hurricanes’ co-operation with Russian bombers, says that in the last few days the joint air force in one sector has silenced several enemy batteries, destroyed a bridge, and accounted for hundreds of German officers and men. Soviet and British airmen have already become firm friends.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1941, Page 4
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172VALIANT PILOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1941, Page 4
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