MALTA SWEEPSTAKE
WON BY AMERICAN AIRMAN, DESTROYER OF THOUSANDTH ENEMY PLANE. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 28. Malta Spitfires this morning destroyed two enemy aircraft, bringing the total score of the R.A.F. at Malta to 1001. Squadron Leader John Lynch, California, shot down the thousandth enemy plane, thereby winning the island sweepstake, which is worth £129. But he intends giving a consolation prize to a newcomer, Pilot Officer Anthony Osborne, a 20-year-old Englishman, who shot down another Junkers two minutes later. It was Lynch’s ninth and Osborne’s first success. Lynch said: “It gave us a nice appetite for breakfast.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1943, Page 3
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