FIGHTER PILOT WITH ONE ARM

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23493, 22 November 1941, Page 3

FIGHTER PILOT WITH ONE ARM

L ' ♦ • LEADER OF FAMOUS BRITISH SQUADRON ’’ (8.0. W.) RUGBY, November ,20. 1 A fighter pilot who had an arm shot c off by a Messerschmitt cannon shell over Malta last March, has been ap- - pointed to lead a. famous Hurricane ‘ squadron in Britain. s He has returned to the front line of 2 the Fighter Command after showing 2 that -his flying .skill is not hampered by the loss of an arm. To prove this r he spent six months in Africa, flying the latest types of fighters. He put m more than 250 hours flying, and by the time he reached Britain was so used to flying with his artificial arm that j a medical board passed him as fit foi ’ operational duties. . - The squadron of which he has now 5 given /commandhas destroyed more < thap/ TOO enemy aircraft in 1 France. He himself has flowfj' between 50 and 60 different types of ajfccrgft. He foughl - with a • Battle bomber squadron in s France early in the war, and after -the o fall of France was sent to Malta with g a Hurricane squadron. e For his work in both these earner paigns he was awarded the D.F.C. and bar. ■ ■ :■ •

Workers Give Up Holiday.—Three thousand six-hundred men and women employeesTo£>h- famous North Country iron and steel Works unanimously: adopted a-resolution to give up the. whole four* days of their Christmasholiday in order to maintain production at, the normal level.—London, November 20. Naval Loss.—The-minelayer Latona - ; has been sunk. There were some t casualties—London. November 20. j*