AIR PILOT’S FEAT
1,350 ITALIAN PRISONERS
BROUGHT IN.
(British Official Wireless.)
RUGBY, July 1
A total of 1350 Italian prisoners was collected by a 27-year-old Irish pilot of a Hurricane bomber forced down in enemy territory a few days before the end of the North African campaign.
The pilot was quartered for four days in an Italian camp. Then the advance detachment of a British regiment arrived and the pilot was motored by an Italian lieutenant to the British headquarters. The following day the pilot ordered the Italians into their transports, and. sitting at the head in a staff car, led them to the prisoners-of-war cages.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1943, Page 3
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