CARRYING ON

Timaru Herald, Volume CLI, Issue 22204, 23 February 1942, Page 5

CARRYING ON

Veterans Of Air War (Rec. 10.8 p.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 21. Many of the Royal Air Force pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain are still helping to beat the enemy—some as operational fliers and others as instructors. Flight Lieutenant M. Lacey, who avenged the first daylight bombing of Buckingham Palace on September 13, 1940, by shooting down the raider over Kent, is teaching new pilots the finer points of air warfare. He left his old squadron with a score of 23 enemy planes destroyed. Two Hurricane pilots, survivors from the Glorious, sunk during the evacuation of Narvik, are still flying against the enemy. One of them, a New Zealander, Wing Commander P. G. Jameson, leads the fighter wing from an English east coast station, and his six victims include two at night. The other is Group Captain K. B. Cross, whose work in the Libyan campaign was recently rewarded with the D.S.O. Other veterans are Squadron Leader H. M. Stephens, who finished the Battle of Britain with a score of 21; Squadron Leader B. J. Wicks, who made an adventurous escape from the Germans when shot down near the Belgian frontier in May, 1940, and Flight Lieutenant A. C. Barley, who was one of the first pilots to test a cannon firing Spitfire against the enemy.