YEAR WITHOUT LOSS
N.Z. SPITFIRE SQUADRON
(Special Correspondent.) (9 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 4
Not a single aircraft lost to the enemy during the year is the record of the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron now operating in the Netherlands. Squadron-Leader J. G. Pattison, Waipawa, said: “Our squadron’s record of 12 months without loss is all the more remarkable when one considers the nature and extent of.the year’s operations. Since D Day alone we have destroyed nine enemy aircraft, besides successfully attacking hundreds of motor vehicles, blowing up ammunition dumps, smashing railway junctions, and damaging gun-posts, locomotives, barges, and every other conceivable target.” Before D-Day there were crossChannel sweeps and bombers’ escort missions and since the invasion began the souadron has been in the thick of things at Falaise, Caen, Breskens, and on up to the present bomb line. Thenprincipal work now is bombing and strafing, often at zero feci; in close support of the army.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21604, 5 January 1945, Page 4
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