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N.Z. ARMOURED FITTER SPITFIRE INSTRUCTION (Special Correspondent.), (2 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 13. One of the few, if not; the only New Zealand armoured fitter posted to an American fighter squadrori is Corporal Clifford Crawford, of Gore. He spent 18 months in England with Spitfire squadrons until last month when he was sent to an American squadron on a station which a New Zealand Spitfire squadron recently left. • Corporal Crawford instructs Americans on servicing Spitfires. L “They are graild chaps and pick up things quickly,” he said: “I have to givg.lecturesand"'demonstrations/ " They* are keen for'"'new ideas. T--have-mever• -seen better tool-kits than theirs. work flat out when on a job.. They want me to remain with. them. I hope I will be allowed to.”. , •
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 4
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