TROPHY BROUGHT HOME
BY BRITISH FIGHTER PILOT. PART OF DESTROYED ENEMY PLANE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, May 30. When he landed at his base after shooting down a Focke-Wulf over Guernsey, following on an 80-mile chase this afternoon, a pilot found that he had flown back with a piece of the enemy aircraft cowling lodged in his radiator, says the Air Ministry. The Focke-Wulf was one of four destroyed when 15 raided a town on the. southwest coast. The other three raiders were destroyed by anti-aircraft fire.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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