SOUTH PACIFIC

Grey River Argus, 29 November 1944, Page 8

SOUTH PACIFIC

NEW SPITFIRES IN ACTION SYDNEY, November 23. Australian and English S'pitfire Squadrons, under R.A-A.F. command, are flying four bladed, high altitude, long range spitfires, of the type used extensively in Europe. This Spitfire is a vast improvement on the earlier

model, which so decisively defeated Japanese attempts to smash Darwin. It has a speed of more than four hundred miles an hour, and a ceiling of more than thirty-flye thousand feet. Spitfire Squadrons, based in Northern Australia* have shot down seventythree Japanese aircraft, with thirtvfour mofiei probably destroyed and twenty-five damaged. In all theatres, these squadrons have destroyed 271 planes, probably destroyed 115 and damaged 43.