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AIRCRAFT ON PATROL LED BY INVERCARGILL PILOT (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent) (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, June 18. “During the day it is almost like flying over the quiet English countryside,” said Wing Commander John Checkets, D. 5.0., D.F.C., of Invercargill, after returning from a patrol over Normandy yesterday afternoon. “ Sometimes you can see a belch of flame coming from one clump of trees and an answering flash from another clump, and you know there is a tank battle in progress. At night you can see gun flashes stabbing the darkness. Here and there, of course, there are towns on, fire. Caen, for instance, is just a mass of flames, and Saint Lo is a heap of rubble and on fire. It is as fiat as a bun.” Wing Commander Checkets, who is a former commanding officer of a New Zealand Spitfire squadron, is now leading a wing comprised of English Canadian, and Polish squadrons. He
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25564, 17 June 1944, Page 5
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