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(Special) LONDON. Sept. 28. Wing-Commander W. V. C. Compton, of Mission Bay, shot down another Focke-Wulf on September 23 during an all day offensive over northern France. He has now 15»/ 2 to his credit. FlightLieutenant Gray Stenborg (Auckland), also got one, making his 14th. He previously had a narrow escape when a German was on his tail, but a British pilot yelled a warning through the radiophone and shot down the German. Then Fit.-Lieut. Stenborg got a German in a dogfight.
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Northern Advocate, 29 September 1943, Page 3
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