CELEBRATION DANCE
GIVEN BY GROUP CAPTAIN MALAN ACHIEVEMENT OF BIGGINHILL STATION. THOUSANDTH GERMAN PLANE SHOT DOWN, (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. Group Captain A. G. Malan invited a thousand guests to a dance at Grosvenor House tonight to celebrate the shooting down by the Bigginhill R.A.F. station of its thousandth German plane. The guests, who are members of the R.A.F. and their womenfolk, ranged from junior pilot officers to Air Chief Marshals Sir Arthur Harris, of the Bomber Command, and Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, of the Fighter Command.
The “Daily Express” says those present also included the exuberant New Zealander, Wing Commander Alan Deere, who now leads a R.A.F. wing at Bigginhill, and Squadron Leader Jack Charles and the Fighting French pilot Rene, who tied in registering the thousandth plane.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1943, Page 4
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