THREE CRASH-LANDINGS
(Official AVar Correspondent.) WESTERN DESERT AERODROME,
Oct. 5.
Three times planes in which PilotOfficer I. W. Evison, Hastings, was navigator have been forced to crasliland after operations, but he is still on the job and hopes soon to take a pilot’s course. He is now with an air rescue flight. With the 75th New Zealand Bomber Squadron, lie carried out 31 operational flights over Germany and one over Italy. When bombing over Benghazi his plane was damaged by anti-aircraft fire, and in landing at a desert aerodrome crashed into another machine fully laden with bombs and petrol. Evison was rescued from the blazing plane while at intervals bombs were bursting, but suffered so severely from burns and cuts that he was off duty for seven months.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 264, 7 October 1942, Page 5
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128THREE CRASH-LANDINGS Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 264, 7 October 1942, Page 5
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