1000 PLANES DOWNED
Celebration by Deere’s Station LONDON, June 9. Group Captain A. G. Malan invited one thousand guests to a dance at Grosvenor House to-night to celebrate the Bigginhill R.A.F. station shooting down .its thousandth Gei - man plane. , ~.. The “Daily Express says that those present also included the exuberant New Zealander, Wing Commander Alan Deere, who now leads the R.A.F. wing at Bigginhill; also Squadron Leader Jack Charles and the Fighting French pilot, Rene, wno both tied in registering the thousandth plane. The guests, who were members of the R.A.F. and their womenfolk, ranged from junior pilot officers to Air Chief Marshals Sii Arthur Harris (Bomber Command, and Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory (Fighter Command).
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Grey River Argus, 11 June 1943, Page 2
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1141000 PLANES DOWNED Grey River Argus, 11 June 1943, Page 2
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