N.Z. PILOT BAGS FOUR OUT OF FIVE
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, January 28. The Algiers correspondent, of the "Daily Express" reports that Flying Officer Paddy Chambers, a Spitfire pilot, of Opotiki, helped to save a Mediterranean convoy by shooting down single-handed four out of five Italian torpedo-bombers in ten minutes. The fifth Italian was within half a mile when Chambers believed his Spitfire was on fire —it was riddled by cannon-shell and smoke was coming from behind the cockpit. Chambers said: "I thought I was on fire, and that put the wind up me. I am a nervous fellow at heart, so I based." •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1943, Page 7
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