NEW ZEALAND ACES
ADDITIONS TO AIR SCORES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 28. Wing Commander W. V. C. Compton shot down another Focke-Wulf on September 23 during an all-day offensive over northern France. It made his score 15-j. Flight Lieutenant Gray Stenborg (Auckland) also got one, making his score 14. He previously had a narrow escape when a German was on his tail, but a British pilot yelled a warning over his radiophone and shot down the German. Then Stenborg got another German in a dogfight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1943, Page 4
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86NEW ZEALAND ACES Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 September 1943, Page 4
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