NEW ZEALAND ACE
SQUADRON LEADER COMPTON INCREASES HIS BAG.
(Special P.A. Correspondent.) (Received This Day, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 29
Within a week of returning to operations, Squadron Leader W. V. C. Compton. of Auckland, shot down another German, bringing his total up to 12J. He was leading a wing during a sweep over the St Omer area when he engaged a formation of enemy fighters. Compton fired at a Messerschmitt 109 at a range of 200 yards and saw cannon shells and machine-gun bullets set fire to a wing of the plane, which went into a spin and crashed. Compton, with Deere and Gray, is among the few ace New Zealand pilots at present operating. The others— Wing Commanders Jameson, Wells and I. S. Smith and Squadron Leader R. J. C. Grant are all resting. Compton has risen to prominence by hard and unspectacular slogging. His only interest in life is flying.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1943, Page 4
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