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Cobber"
gave R.A.F.
best
Its
day
By RONALD WALKER SEVEN German
there. I could see a village.
""Instead" of making for it I went towards the sun, walking cautiously, A minute or two later o French officer came running up and pre- sented his revolver at me.
"I had just entistled him as to who
I was when French soldiers rushed up and pushed their bayonets against; aero-officer had finally convinced the sol- both our stomachs. When the French planes-five of them definite lers he took me back to the mens
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and two unconfirmed were and have no doctor treated a bullet QUANTITY OR QUALITY..WHICH?
"There a
shot down by one of our wound in my hand and the holes in fighter squadrons in the my legs from shell splinters. I was told that the village I had thought busiest day's air scrapping of making was German occupied." since the war began.
Air
Marshal Barratt issued a com- munique stating that there was mark- In the midst of the fight- ed increase in ecrial activity on the ing was "Cobber," the 21-Western Front in the neighbourhood year-old New Zealand pilot,
jot Metz.
who is the air ace of this Fought Sevon And Nine war so far.
"A formation of seven enemy He bears a charmed life.
reconnaissaifce aircraft," stated the He shot down two Messer-Aghters was intercepted and engaged communique, "which was escorted by schmitt fighters, and was in turn by fighter patrols of the RAF. shot down, wounded, jumpeil Several broke up the enemy formn- out with his parachute, landed tlon and forced the enemy to uban- in No-Man's-Land within half a Later one of our patrols encoun
don his reconnaissance mile of the German lines, andered escaped back into France.
"Cobber" now has five definite and one possible German aircraft to his credit. His squadron claims a bag of 11 definite and three possible vic
tories.
Cobber's Story
Only a month ago he struggled back to France from Germany with his machine wrecked by German
cannon shells, the engines stopped and on fire. He was slightly burned, and choking with smoke and fumes. The young New Zealander was limping up the village street when I found him.
He grinned his wide grin when he
saw me.
"All right," he said, "I spill it
We were out on patrol, The
two
IL formation of ning enemy ilghters. In the ensuing fight two enemy aircraft were seen to go down in flames.
One of our #ghters Wis shot down, but
but the pilot escaped by parachute.
Hearing that the war was really jon a 23-year-old flying omeer fron Warwick led his flight up to join in.
"We more off towards distant anti- aircraft aircraft fire," he said. "Just before we got there we spotted 12 Messer- schmitt single-engined fighters. They did not see us for some time. Then they described a very wide circle, the leader moving up to get on my tail.
"We got Into light circle, and ions over the top of us. the Germans went flying in ali direc- I closed in behind two of them, trying a deflec
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"It went down in smoke.
geant-pilot from Bitchin. We saw Fight Over Nazi Drome
some anti-aircraft Are ahead and flew towards it.
Odd Spots In Sky
"The other machine made off to Germany, which 2 did not realise at the time. We had a dog-fight right over his aerodrome. Suddenly he "Then I saw some odd spots in the made a most petullar move, coming sky. I turned on the old radio tele- right up in front of me, got him. phone
and said: "Messerschmitts and he went down with orange flame ahead."
"We counted nine of them. I led
bursting out from beneath.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that I was in and the others followed. They attacked. Some enemy lighters were tackled us in two lots of twos, and lurking above us when we made the then the other five waded in.
HT
Arst attack. I did not see them.
I got B shot Info one of the first After the first Aght they dived on me, two which attacked me and I saw it "I saw bullets thudding through stall,
be out and then go down with smoke the wing. That was all. The pilot
of my second machine
saw the Then the fun got pretty furious. @ghters come down, but I did not. I looked for myoiler-machines, but Nothing-mere-happened
of it.
saw only swastikas flashing by. I got "The escorting fighters deserted a burst Into
one of them and saw it the bombers, and I saw them going go down in a cloud of black smoke. [off home tightly bunched together."
"Now comes
mes my fade-out. Two or three German Aghters were itp parently above the rest. They waited there like hawks ready to pick of enemy machines.
Then-Bang
"By this time the sky had cleared, and I looked round to see what was happening.
The Man Who Shot
Down Cobber
Berlin. The pilot who is reported in to-day's German High Command communique
to have shot down a British Hurricane fighter says in the "There was nothing behind, and Berlin newspaper "Nachinusgabe." then-bang.
"Seven of our machines were dy- "The cockpli covering was blown ing on border patrol when we suid- of. I did not have time to knowdenly encountered three
planes. what had happened, or where it cume followed by five more,
ja
from. Flames and hot oil came up "In a quick upward swing I passed 'from the engine,
Briton just as he wanted to begin "I passed out. I came to, and put work on me. Another approached my left arm out of the cockpit, and alone. He didn't see me. I banked It seemed minutes before I could my Messerschmitt to get. within resist the wind pressure sufficiently favourable shoaling range. I felt the urge to press the firing button, but I
to get realised that I was in a remembered the words of my captain,
"Then I steep dive, Bending forward to turn Get still closer.'
off the petrol,
got my face burned, "The time came. My cannon and and then I pulled back the stick to machine-gun blazed at the close The come out of the dive, undid my target and all must have hit. straps, rolled over and slipped out of enemy plane turned sharply upward the cockpit.
As if the pilot had been hit and the "After getting my face scorched, machine out of
control. the next thing I remember was feel- "My next shots tore away part of Ing the ale on my face as I fell, and the tall. I followed the falling plane thinking how good and cool it was, to a cloud ceiling of about 6,000ft. realised that I had not pulled There he disappeared, Later I saw the ripeord to release the parachute. the plane in flames on the ground."
"Owing
to my glove being covered
Then
with oil I could not get hold of the
While I was tearing off my
grip.
glove I fell through a large cloud.
1
could remember realising that every- thing all around me was white and very light.
"For a moment I thought to my- self "This must be Heaven. Then I instinctively pulled the ripcord, and came out of the chud 'hanging sideways on the parachute, because my left shoulder strap had come loose.
In No-Man's-Land
"As I floated down it was obvious that it was going to be louch and go whether I landed in Germany or France.
"In an endeavour to help myself on my way to France I tried the method of pulling on the shroud to spill air out of the chute and so guide it towards France.
"I came down with a wallop in No-Man's-Land. This much I knew, because I know this country' now, but I did not know where everything, -was,, - Picking, myself up I ran liko the devil to a small wood. From
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