GRIM ADVENTURE
OF SPITFIRE PILOT IN AUSTRALIA LANDING AFTER CRASH IN SEA. FOLLOWED BY 16 DAYS IN BUSH. (Special Australian Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.55 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day.. Only two Spitfire pilots were lost in the big air battle over the Darwin area on May 2. One Australian airman spent sixteen clays wandering in the North Australian bush before he was found by trackers. His plane came down in the sea about ten miles off the coast, but how the pilot came ashore and the story of his subsequent wanderings are not known. He is still in hospital.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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99GRIM ADVENTURE Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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