ONE-ARMED LEADER
HURRICANE SQUADRON SKILL NOT IMPAIRED (Untisli Official Wireless.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Nov. 20. A fighter pilot who had an arm shot off by a Messerschmitt cannon shell over Malta last March has been appointed to lead a famous Hurricane squadron in Britain. He has returned to the front line of the Fighter ' Command after showing that his flying skill is not hampered by the loss of the arm. To prove thishe spent six months in Africa flying the latest types of fighters. He put in more than 250 hours of flying, and by the time he reached Britain lie was so used to flying with an artificial arm that a medical board passed him fit for operational duties. The squadron of which he is now given command has destroyed more than 100 enemy aircraft in France. He himself has Mown between 50 and GO different types of aircraft. He fought with a battle bomber squadron in France early in the war and after the fall of France was sent to Malta with a Hurricane squadron. For his work in both these campaigns he has been awarded the D.F.C. and bar.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20619, 21 November 1941, Page 6
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