FIGHTER PILOTS
NEW ZEALAND SPITFIRE SQUADRON. SOME OF THEIR RECENT ACTIVITIES. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) (Special P.A. Correspondent.) LONDON, July 27. Although the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron has been withdrawn from the first line, it is not doing nothing. Led by an Aucklander, Squadron Leader Grant, D.F.M. —who has carried out 119 sweeps —it recently shot up seven railway locomotives in enemyoccupied territory in two days, while also carrying out convoy patrols and dawn patrols off the enemy coastlines and watching for enemy fighters which may be “nibbling” at our bombers, returning late from raids over Germany. There have been several changes recently. Sergeants A. R. Robson (Hastings), D.F.M., I. P. Maskill (Invercargill), and D. G. E. Brown (Auckland), have been promoted to pilot officers. Newcomers include Sergeants J. A. Houlton (Christchurch), R. Vessey and G. Moorehead (both of Ashburton), and M. Sutherland (Dunedin). Flight Lieutenant J. G. Pattison (Waipawa) is now instructing members of the American Army Air Corps.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1942, Page 4
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