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FOR FORMER NEW ZEALAND TENNIS STAR WING COMMANDER MALFROY. APPOINTED TO LEAD SPITFIRE WING. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This - Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, June 23. The former New Zealand tennis star, Wing Commander C. E. Malfroy, D.F.C., has been appointed to lead a Spitfire wing. Wing Commander Malfroy was taken off operational flying last July, after completing some 300 hours of flying. Then, following on a spell instructing, he joined the headquarters staff of a fighter group responsible for the defence of South-West England. He recently took a fighter leader’s refresher course before assuming command of his wing. Wing Commander Malfroy has destroyed at least four enemy aircraft and damaged several others.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1943, Page 2
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