TAKEN PRISONER
NEW ZEALAND SPITFIRE ACE. (By Telegraph— Press Association—Copyright) LONDONj November 29. The “Evening Standard’s” aviation correspondent states that Flight Lieutenant Raymond Hesselyn, D.F.C., D.F.M., and Bar, the young New Zealand Spitfire ace who was reported missing after a cross-Channel sweep some weeks ago, is a prisoner of war. Hesselyn, who was one of the heroes of the air war over Malta last year, had destroyed 19 enemy planes and also shared in the destruction of another. He was awarded the D.F.C. a month ago, while missing, and he won the D.F.M. and Bar in 10 days during the battles over Malta. He was one of the pilots who took the first Spitfires to Malta, and he accounted for 12 Axis planes in a few weeks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1943, Page 3
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