PILOT’S COURAGE.
NEW ZEALANDER DECORATED. ENGAGED SUPERIOR NUMBERS. (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m. LONDON, June 12. Pilot-Officer Alan Christopher Deere, aged 22 has been awarded the D.F.C. During May, Pilot-Officer Deere was engaged in seven combats, often against superior numbers. He shot down five planes and assisted in the destruction of others. Once 12 Messerschmitts attacked a training plane which was going to Calais to the rescue of a Squadi-onrLeader who was shot down there. Pilot-Officer Deere”' and another pilot, who were escorting the training plane, immediately fought back and three Mqsserchmitts were shot down, and three seriously damaged. Pilot Officer Deere displayed courage and determination in all these encounters.
He joined the Royal Air Force as a pupils in 1938.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 210, 13 June 1940, Page 6
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