NOT A PLANE LOST
N.Z. SPITFIRE SQUADRON’S RECORD YEAR
London, Jan. 4.
Not a single aircraft lost to the enemy during the year is the record of the New Zealand Spitfire Squadron now operating in the Netherlands. Squadron Leader J. (5. Pattison, of Waipawa. said: “Our squadron’s record of twelve months without a loss is all the more remarkable when one considers the nature and extent of the year's operations, Since D-Day alone we have destroyed nine enemy aircraft besides successfully attacking hundreds of motor vehicles.'blowing up ammunition dumps, smashing railway junctions and pranging gunpOsts, locomotives, barges and every other conceivable target.” Before D-Day there were cross-Chan-nel sweeps and bomber escort missions and since the invasion began the squad- , ron has been in the thick of things at Falaise. Caen. Breskens and on up to the present bomb line. Their principal work is now bombing and strafing, often at zero feet, in close support' of the Army.—P.A. Special Correspondent.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 5 January 1945, Page 5
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