TROOP TRAIN WRECKED
ATTACK BY N.Z. PILOT RAILWAY STATION SHOT UP LONDON. January 13. A voung New Zealander, flying a Buffalo fighter, yesterday wrecked a Japanese troop train in Thailand reports the Rangoon correspondent ot the “Daily Express.” , . , • This pilot leads a flight which is known as “Pancho’s Circus, because of his blue chin and good-looking Mexican-type face. When attacking the train he flew so low that he passed through the smoke from the funnel. The tram bristled with machine-guns, which blazed awav, but the New Zealand pilot put a 'couple of hundred bullets into the boiler and the engine blew up wrecking the train. It was “Pancho’s” lucky day because he had also destroyed two Japanese aeroplanes on an airfield and shot up a railway station.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23537, 15 January 1942, Page 5
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