BRITAIN'S CHAMPION AIRMEN.
CAPTAIN BISHOP'S VICTIMS. (Received 10.25 a,m.) LONDON, August 4. A feature of the "Gazette" containing awards to British and Dominion airmen is the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to the Canadian airman Captain Bishop, who had already received the Victoria Cross and several other awards, for destroying 25 enemy machines in 12 —five in one day—making the total destroyed by him 72.— (Renter.) Major Maunock, credited with downing 50 enemy aeroplanes, is missing.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 185, 5 August 1918, Page 5
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