SHOT DOWN
ON ITS OWN AERODROME
TWIN-ENGINED AXIS PLANE. NEW ZEALAND PILOT’S FEAT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY. May 20. An enemy aircraft shot down over Holland last night was des- ! troyed single-handed by a 24-year-old New Zealand fighter pilot, says the Air Ministry news service. A thick haze over the Dutch coast made navigation difficult, but the pilot 1 located the enemy aerodrome which was his objective and circled it at a height of a thousand feet. Just below him, he saw a twin-engined aircraft, with navigation lights on, preparing to land. He manoeuvred himself into position and, flying slightly above and about a hundred yards behind the enemy aircraft, gave it three two-second bursts. The enemy machine crashed about a hundred yards from the aerodrome flare path. The New Zealander, who comes from Ashburton, has taken part in numerous nigfit attacks on enemy aerodromes, and at the beginning of this month was awarded the D.F.C. for great skill and exceptional devotion to duty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 May 1942, Page 4
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