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FAMOUS SQUADRON

AUSTRALIAN ACHIEVEMENTS IN DESERT MAINTENANCE OF FINE TRADITIONS. CONTINUED DESTRUCTION OF ENEMY PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY. March 9. The Australian pilots of the Kittyhawk Squadron, which on Sunday destroyed nine enemy aircraft without loss to themselves, are maintaining their fine traditions. Their’s was the unit which operated in the Desert in the first engagements with the Italian army and Air Force and ever since they have been operating victoriously in North Africa, with the exception of a brief but successful spell of work in Syria. At the beginning of the present campaign, the squadron achieved the distinction of being the first unit in the Middle East to “top the century” of enemy aircraft destroyed.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
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FAMOUS SQUADRON Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 4

FAMOUS SQUADRON Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1942, Page 4

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