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AVERAGED BY MEN OF TWO BRITISH SQUADRONS IN ONE DAY’S BAG TWENTY ENEMY MACHINES DESTROYED. AUSTRALIAN SHOOTS DOWN FIVE (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, December 7. As announced in yesterday’s R.A.F. Middle East communique, 20 enemy aircraft were brought down in Libya on Friday. The remarkable fact is now revealed by the Air Ministry that these twenty enemy aircraft were destroyed by two R.A.F. squadrons, equipped with Tomahawk fighters. Since the averageo complement of R.A.F. squadrons operating in the Western Desert is twelve, it appears that the pilots of these two squadrons accounted for roughly one enemy each. The highlight of the operation was the destruction of five Junkers 87s in al-
most as few minutes by an Australian flight lieutenant appropriately nicknamed “The Killer.” Pilots said that very few of the Stukas they attacked managed to drop their bombs. If they did get down they stayed down. Another high scorer was a French Canadian pilot, who returned to his R.A.F. squadron a few days ago after recovering from a head injury. He shot down three enemy aircraft.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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