STENBORG'S VICTIMS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 104, 5 May 1942, Page 5

STENBORG'S VICTIMS

FOUR FOCKE-WULFS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Cogyrioht.) (Special Correspondent.) (Bee. 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 4. The four German planes shot down in five days by Pilot Officer Gray Stenborg, of Auckland, were all Focke-Wulf 190's, Germany's latest day fighter. He was previously attached to the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron, and secured a transfer, preferring night-fighters, but this squadron returned to day lighting, to which he has been "converted" since achiev- i ing his victories. He got the first of his four victims —the first of his career —when FockeWulfs dived into his squadron during a sweep over northern France. Stenborg got a glimpse of a diving Hun, made a right turn, and raked it with machine-gun and cannon fire, and it •made a vertical dive on to French soil. He got his second German on the following day, when his wing, which was escorting Hurribornbers in an attack on St. Omer, sighted 60 Huns and shot down nine. Stenborg jumped on to a Focke-Wulf which was attempting to interfere with the bombing, and saw it hit the ground. He -■'got two more three days later. He saw the pilot of his fourth victim shoot out of the cockpit and make a parachute landing in France.