GALLANT MALTA
OVER 1,000 ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED
AIR MINISTER'S MESSAGE OF CONGRATULATION.
GLORIOUS AND SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENT.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, October 16. Malta has brought down its thousandth enemy raider since the outbreak of war in the Mediterranean. It fell soon after dawn on Tuesday to Pilot Officer G. F. Buerling, a Canadian, who destroyed two other hostile aircraft in the same fight, making his score 26, including 24 at Malta, where he arrived in June.
In a message to the Air Officer Commanding at Malta, the Air Minister (Sir A. Sinclair) sent congratulations “to your squadrons on their brilliant exploits in recent battles. The destruction of more than a thousand aircraft by the airmen and gunners of Malta is a glorious and significant achievement.”
Between Octobei’ 10 and 13, sixty enemy aircraft were destroyed over Malta, during day and night attacks, for the loss of six R.A.F. fighters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 4
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