Canadian-born Pilot Officer George (“Screwball”) Buerling, of the R.A.F., holder of the D.S.O., D.F.C. and D.F.M., with Bar, was welcomed home by Mr Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister. He is only twenty, and is one of the outstanding flying personalities of the war At Malta he shot down 28 enemy aircraft in four months. and on one occasion destroyed four Axis planes in a single day David, aged 5, and Richard, aged 10, greet their air-ace brother.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 4
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77Canadian-born Pilot Officer George (“Screwball”) Buerling, of the R.A.F., holder of the D.S.O., D.F.C. and D.F.M., with Bar, was welcomed home by Mr Mackenzie King, Canadian Prime Minister. He is only twenty, and is one of the outstanding flying personalities of the war At Malta he shot down 28 enemy aircraft in four months. and on one occasion destroyed four Axis planes in a single day David, aged 5, and Richard, aged 10, greet their air-ace brother. Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 4
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