“GRAND CHAPS”
VERDICT OF NEW ZEALANDERS.
WORKING WITH AMERICAN AIRMEN. ißy Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m'.) LONDON. August 13. One of the few, if not the only New Zealand armourer fitter posted to an American fighter squadron, is Corporal Clifford Crawford, of Gore. He had spent eighteen months' in England with Spitfire squadrons until last month, when he was sent to an American squadron on a station which a New Zealand Spitfire squadron recently left. Corporal Crawford instructs Americans on the servicing of Spitfires. He declared: “They , are grand chaps and pick up things quickly. 1 have to give lectures and demonstrations. They are keen for any new idea. I have never seen better tool kits than theirs. They work flat out when on a job. They want me to remain with them and I hope I will be allowed to.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 August 1942, Page 4
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