NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
PROMOTIONS IN BRITAIN. (Special P.A. Correspondent). LONDON, May 6. Flight Lieutenant T. B. Fitzgerald, D.F.C., has been promoted squadron leader. He is now a test pilot for Hawker aircraft, and is testing in the production of Hurricanes and Typhoons. He fought in the battles of France and Britain and then flew Hurricane bombers and Spitfires. He shot down two Messerschmitts 109 s last autumn, B. J. Warring, Wellington, has been promoted to sub-lieutenant in the R.N.Z.N.V.R. Squadron Leader Alan Deere, D.F.C. and bar, Wanganui, has returned from the United States, where he visited air corps and aerodromes. He is now leading a squadron of Spitfires. A draft of 30 air crews, led by Pilot Officer J. G. DuffiU, Hawera, recently arrived in England after an uneventful voyage.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1942, Page 3
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