ACE PILOT DEAD
NOTED NIGHT FIGHTER LONDON, Jan. 21. Flight Lieutenant Richard Stevens* D. 5.0., D.F.C., and bar, Britain’s No. 2 ace night-fighter and lone-hand avenger, is dead. He shot down 14 bombers, most of them at night, during last winter’s raids on London Flight Lieutenant John Cunningham shot down 15. Flight Lieutenant Stevens did not return from a daylight sweep over the Dutch coast last month. He was 33 years of age, and before the war he was a commercial pilot flying newspapers to Paris at night, a job which fitted him for night fighting. Twice he shot down two bombers in one night. The "Daily Telegraph” says that Flight Lieutenant Stevens’s wife and child were killed during an air raid, and his sole ambition then was to shoot down as many Germans as possible. He worked alone and never missed an opportunity to engage the enemy. Tall and strong-faced. Flight Lieutenant Stevens posed for Eric Kennington’s picture “Nightflyer.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 6
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160ACE PILOT DEAD Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22201, 19 February 1942, Page 6
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