NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
SERVICE IN MEDITERRANEAN. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) LONDON, February 11. new Zealanders in the Fleet Air Arm who flew over Mediterranean convoys from desert aerodromes and aso helped to shoot up Field-Marshal Rommel's motor transport en route to El Alamein, have returned to England. They are Lieutenants D. K. Evans, L. H Wiren and Sub-Lieutenant D. J. Nairn, all Wellington. Evans and Nairn joined a squadron in the Western Desert in February, 1942, and were near a detachment of New Zealand engineers guarding an oasis, on whom they called. Their squadron was commanded by Commander T. Coode, R.N., who spent three years in New Zealand and was awarded the D.S.O. for torpedoing the Bismarck. He was lately reported missing. „ „ ~ , The New Zealanders flew Grumman Martlet fighters, but did not see any enemy aircraft. Evans once shot up a U-boat, peppering it before it submerged. After Rommel advanced to El Alamein they flew from Alexandria, and then went to Nairobi before returning to England. Wiren once flew a Fulmar 3000 miles on a special mission in Palestine and Syria.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1943, Page 3
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