MODEST PILOT
“Nervous Fellow At Heart” (6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 28. The correspondent of the “Daily Express” at Algiers reports that Flying Officer Paddy Chambers, of Opotiki, .1 Spitfire pilot who calls himself a “nervous fellow at heart." helped to save a large convoy in the Mediterranean byshooting down single-handed fom- or five Italian torpedo-bombers in 10 minutes. The fifth Italian was within half a mile when Chambers believed liis Spitfire was on fire—it was riddled with cannon shells and smoke was coming from behind the cockpit. Chambers said: "I thought I was on fire and that put the wind up me. I am a nervous fellow at heart, so I went back to my base.”
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22493, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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116MODEST PILOT Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22493, 30 January 1943, Page 5
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