FIGHT AGAINST JUNKERS
DUNEDIN PILOT'S PROMINENT PART (N.Z.E.F. Official War Correspondent.) ALGIERS. April 14. A young New Zealand Spitfire pilot, Sergeant R. F. Keller, of shared in the destruction, of four Junkers 52. transports—part"'of the total'of nine enemy aircraft shot dpwn by R.A.F, fighters over the. Tunisian battlefront on Monday. With many other New Zealand pilots, _ Sergeant Keller swept oyer our advancing troops in the greatest day of fighter-bomber activity'in the North African campaign. Over the coast Sergeant Keller'* squadron, on an offensive sweep, met a formation of Junkers 52's with ah escort;of Messersehmitt . 109's. which appeared to have just, taken . off. " It was. a shame to take the money." a Spitfire pilot said afterwards. While an English pilot attacked two of these' heavily-laden transports. Sergeant Keller, dived in on the third. All three enemy aircraft crashed into the sea in flames.
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Evening Star, Issue 24481, 16 April 1943, Page 2
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