D.F.C. FOR AUCKLANDER
(Received August 28, 11.40 a.m.)
LONDON, August 27
Awards to members of the Royal Air Force include the D.F.C. to Pilot Officer J. A. Gitjson, of Auckland. The citation states that while patrolling over Dover he; engaged and destroyed a Junkers and was afterwards himself shot down- Although his aircraft was in flames, he steered away from Folkestone and did not abandon his aircraft until he had descended to 1000 feet. He has now destroyed eight enemy planes.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 51, 28 August 1940, Page 9
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81D.F.C. FOR AUCKLANDER Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 51, 28 August 1940, Page 9
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