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DARWIN. NO. 54 SQUADRON RAF (SPITFIRE) AT DARWIN. F/LT R. (BOB) FOSTER OF LONDON STANDS BESIDE THE SPITFIRE IN WHICH HE SHOT DOWN A JAPANESE RECONNAISSANCE PLANE. THAT WAS THE FIRST OCCASION ON WHICH SPITFIRES HAD BEEN IN ACTION IN THE SOUTH WEST PACIFIC AREA. FOSTER WAS MORE WORRIED ABOUT "YVONNE" ON THE PLANE THAN HE WAS ABOUT TACKLING THE JAP PLANE. HE SAYS HE DIDN'T USE HIS OWN PLANE ON THAT OCCASION. (NEGATIVE BY H. TURNER).
DARWIN. NO. 54 SQUADRON RAF SPITFIRE PILOTS CONGRATULATE F/LT FOSTER (LONDON) AFTER HE HAD SHOT DOWN A JAP PLANE OVER DARWIN. THIS WAS THE FIRST OCCASION ON WHICH SPITFIRES WENT INTO ACTION IN THE SOU
R.A.F. SPITFIRE PILOTS AT DARWIN, F/LT. R. FOSTER (LONDON) WITH SQUADRON LEADER GIBBS (WEST MORELANDSHIRE) AND P/O J. COUNCER AFTER HE HAD SHOT DOWN JAPANESE PLANE ON THE FIRST OCCASION SPITFIRES WENT
JAPANESE RAID ON DARWIN. SPITFIRES MANNED BY THE RAAF AND R.A.F. WENT INTO ACTION FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AUSTRALIAN WHEN 49 JAP BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS RAIDED DARWIN. AT LEAST 14 WERE SHOT OUT OF ACTION.
JAPANESES RAID ON DARWIN. SPITFIRES MANNED BY THE RAAF AND R.A.F. WENT INTO ACTION FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AUSTRALIA WHEN 49 JAP BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS RAIDED DARWIN. AT LEAST 14 WERE SHOT OUT OF ACTION.
JAPANESE RAID ON DARWIN. SPITFIRES MANNED BY THE RAAF AND R.A.F. WENT INTO ACTION FOR THE SECOND TIME IN AUSTRALIA WHEN 49 JAP BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS RAIDED DARWIN. AT LEAST 14 WERE SHOT OUT OF ACTION.
NORTHERN AUSTRALIA. LEADING AIRCRAFTMAN (LAC) JACK SUTHERLAND OF SUTHERLAND SHIRE, SCOTLAND, ADDS ANOTHER "NIP" TO A PIECE OF JAP ZERO WHICH HANGS IN THE OFFICERS' MESS AT A SPITFIRE SQUADRON IN A NOR
