CLOUD COMBAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 91, 18 April 1941, Page 7

CLOUD COMBAT.

NAZIS SHOT DOWN.

Third R.A.F. Squadron Passes

Century Mark

(IU-fd. 1.30 p.m.)

RUGBY. April 17

Wlion pilots of a Spitfire squadron shot down two Modscrschmitts 110 (his morning they raised its total 1);ilt of fiiritjy aircraft destroyed to 100.

"Tho -qtiadron leader had pone up with other pilots." -ays tlie Air Ministry news t-erviee. ''on a practice flight over shipping when they were warned of enemy aircraft nearby. In a few minute* they saw four Mt><*er*chmitts 110 which were taken completely by ''The flyiiiff-oflicer attacked two enemy machine'; in turn. Fie killed tlie "linner of the second and as the other Messer-sv-hmitt was crawling into a cloud layer, lip fired two more hursts that sent it in a slow spin into the sea. A third Me*-=ersi-hinitt 11(1 wsw chased in and out of tho clouds by the squadron leader who after soveral bursts saw a large piece of tho starboard wing-tip fall off the Messer«chmitt which turned over on its back and fell into the r^ea.

"11 was (lie squadron leader'-; sixteenth conlirnied success. He is a 22-yoar-olcl Scotti-h mining engineer who. until recent ly. was a flight-commander in the L'ity of (Glasgow Auxiliary Si|ua<lron. Hi- now squadron is the thirteenth in the Fighter Command to score i< <"Ciiturv."