“I was stationed in a night fighter squadron during one of the Jerry blitzes in the Midlands. This squadron was fortunate in shooting down two Jerry bombers, and I, of course, shooting a line, wrote and told a friend of mine that we had got these two Jerries. This.,friend had a factory, and I played up a big story as to how we got the Hun, expecting of course to get a pat on the back, and a packet of cigarettes. Instead of which he wrote back and said: ‘Tell your boys to keep their damned eyes open. One of the other’Jerries got my factory’.”—Flying Officer Jim Cornish, in a 8.8. C. broadcast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1943, Page 3
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