NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
1 * WAR SERVICE IN BRITAIN. (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, June 25. Newcomers to the New Zealand night fighter squadron include Flight Lieutenant R. J. C. Barber, Rotorua, Sergeants M. O. Jorgensen, Auckland, R. L. Gearon, Pukekohe, and L. C. Woodward, Christchurch. They replace men who have been transferred. Pilot Officer J. D. Webster, Whakatane, flying a Spitfire, assisted an Englishman to down a Messerschmitt 110 off the coast of Cornwall. He set fire to the fuselage of the raider, and the Englishman set fire to one engine. The Hun hit the sea and broke up “like a crushed matchbox.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1942, Page 5
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