OPOTIKI AIRMAN
SAYS HE HAD WIND UP. AFTER SHOOTING DOWN FOUR TORPEDO PLANES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, January 28. The Algiers correspondent of the “Daily Express” reports that Flying Officer Paddy Chambers, a Spitfire pilot, cf Opotiki, helped to save a Mediterranean convoy by shooting down single-handed four out of five Italian terpedo-bombers in 10 minutes. The fifth Italian was within half a mile when Chambers believed his Spitfire was on fire—it was riddled by can-non-shell and smoke was coming from behind the cockpit. Chambers said: “I thought I was on fire, and that put the wind up me. I am. a nervous fellow at heart, so I based.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 January 1943, Page 2
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