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IN ALLIED AIR OFFENSIVE I TAKEN BY NEW ZEALAND SQUADRON. INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS.. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, April 27.The New Zealand Spitfire Squadron is taking the fullest part in the offensive over France. Pilots are standing by for action from dawn to dusk. During the Fighter Command’s biggest offensive operation of the war last week, the squadron shot down three enemy machines. Squadron Leader E. P. Wells, D.F.C. and Bar, of Cambridge, shot down his tenth German. Flight Lieutenant W. V. C. Compton, D.F.C., of Mission Bay, raised his score to five and a half. Flight Lieutenant J. R. C. Kilian, of Christchurch, bagged his first. Pilot Officer J. Palmer, Havelock North, got another probable. This score resulted in a dogfight with Focke Wulfs 190. Pilot Officer D. J. Scott, of Greymouth, has been awarded the D.F.C.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1942, Page 4
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143FULL PART Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1942, Page 4
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