GALLANT FEAT
BY NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN WHILE CIRCLING ROUND COMRADE IN SEA. TWO INTRUDING ITALIAN PLANES SHOT DOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, January 15. A New Zealand airman, Pilot Officer Hesketh, scored his first successes over the Tripolitanian coast when, circling around his squadron leader when the latter had been shot down into the sea, after an Allied fighter formation had destroyed five enemy planes, two Macchi 200 s approached. As Pilot Officer Hesketh circled, he shot them both down into the sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1943, Page 2
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88GALLANT FEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1943, Page 2
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