AIRMAN REPORTED SAFE
—«— DISTINGUISHED CAREER . Wing Commander M. V. Blake, D.5.0., D.F.C., who has been a prisoner of war in Germany for the last two years and a half, has now been reported safe and well in the United Kingdom. Wing Commander Blake, who is a son of the late Mr C. M. Blake, and of Mrs E, D. Blake, 16 Ward street, Christchurch, is a New Zealand air ace with a score of nine and a half enemy aircraft to his credit. He was decorated in the Battle of Britain, He
WING COMMANDER M. V. BLAKE was shot down over Dieppe, and .was taken prisoner at this time. While a prisoner of war he spent a great deal of time working on two inventions for aircraft engines.’ One of his first missions in England will be to test out their practicability. Two of his inventions were accepted by the Air Ministry when war broke out. Wing Commander Blake, who was twice nominated as a Rhodes Scholar, left New Zealand in 1936 for ; England, to enter the Royal Air Force Training School under a New Zealand Government scholarship, which he gained as a graduate from' Canterbury University College.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24591, 13 June 1945, Page 8
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