VETERAN WINGS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1942, Page 5

VETERAN WINGS

Pilots From The Battle Of

Britain

STXLIi ON ACTIVE SERVICE

Rec. 10.30 a.m.

RUGBY, Feb. 22.

Many of the K.A.F. pilots, who fought in the Battle of Britain, are still helping to beat the enemy— some as operational flyers, others as instructors. Flight-Lieutenant M. Lacey, who avenged the first daylight bombing of Buckingham Palace on September 13, 1940, by shooting down the raider over Kent, is teaching new pilots the finer points of air warfare. He left his old squadron with a score of 23 enemy planes destroyed.

Two Hurricane pilots, survivors from the aircraft-carrier GJorious, sunk during the evacuation of Narvik, are still flying against the enemy. One of them is a New Zealander, Wing-Commander P. G. Jameson, D.F.C., of Lower Hutt, Wellington, who leads a fighter wing from an English east coast station and whose six victims include two at night. The other is Group-Captain K. B. Cross, whose work in the Libyan campaign was recently rewarded with the D.S.O.

Other veterans are: SquadronLeader H. M. Stephen, who finished the Battle of Britain with a score of 21; Squadron-Leader B. J. Wicks, who made an adventurous escape from the Germans when shot down near the Belgian frontier in May, 1940; and Flight-Lieutenant A. C. Barley, Who was one of the first pilots to test the cannon-firing Spitfire against the enemy.