“ACTION AT NIGHT”
YOUNG N.Z. AIRMAN’S ANTICIPATION.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 3.
Success in combat has come quickly to Pilot Officer Gray Stenborg, who is credited in the cables with shooting down four German aircraft in five days. In a letter home, written on January 16, he was lamenting that no Germans had yet put themselves in his way, “but,” he added prophetically, “in the coming months we should get plenty of action at night.”
A son of Mr G. Stenborg, Devonport, Pilot Officer Stenborg was born in. 1921, and was educated at King’s College. After a year in the employment of W. D. and H. O. Wills, he returned to King’s College to study for a university scholarship. However, his very active interest in aviation, which began with model building in his boyhood, was so stimulated by the war, that he abandoned his studies to enter the R.N.Z.A.F. late in 1940, at the age of 18. He went to Canada in April last year, and was commissioned in August and transferred to Scotland for further training in combat tactics.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1942, Page 2
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