FEATHERSTON AIRMAN
EXPERIENCE AS CONVOY SPOTTER. EIGHTEEN MONTHS SPENT ■ AT MALTA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 18. A New Zealander who has the distinction of spending 18 months at. Malta is Wing Commander J. R. Bloxam, D.F.C., Featherston. He went there in March, 1941, as a Hight lieutenant, and returned to England last week. He flew for a year in an American Maryland fighter-reconnaissance plane. One of his jobs was to locate Italian convoys and then advise the Royal Navy or the bombers and torpedobombers. He Hew over Tripoli, Naples. Greece and Sardinia, and once bombed a 15,()()()-ton Italian troopship and left it on fire.
He reported an Italian convoy in June, 1941, alter which a force led by Lord Louis IVlountbatten completely wiped it out. He .subsequently reported two destroyers and four merchantmen lying beached, and also spoiled during the Battle of Matapan. Lateu, he once or twice saw the entire Italian fleet.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 2
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