NEW ZEALAND AIRMEN
ACHIEVEMENTS IN BRITAIN. (Special P.A. Correspondent.) LONDON, March 9. The sole New Zealander in the Whirlwind fighter-bomber squadron is 22-year-old Flight Sergeant Desmond Roberts, New Plymouth, who recently shot down a Dornier 217 over the Channel and later met the German pilot after he had been picked up by sea rescue craft. Roberts said: “The Germans baled out just as the Dornier broke up. I just dipped the port wing in time to miss one of them.” Whirlwinds are used for strafing 1 German shipping in the Channel, and also continuously attacking communications in northern France and Belgium. Flight Lieutenant James S. Humphreys, Wellington, is the only New Zealander in the West Riding of Yorkshire Squadron flying Typhoons, which have been shooting down sneak-and-run daylight raiders with considerable success. Humphreys fought in France and the Battle of Britain.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1943, Page 3
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