SQUADRON LEADER PILOT BRINGS DAMAGED SPITFIRE 150 MILES BACK TO BASE [See News Letter dated 12th August 1942]. - What a German anti-aircraft shell did to a Spitfire which was hit whilst on an offensive sweep over the Belgian coast recently. With the exception of a single wire, the elevator controls were shot away, but the pilot - a squadron leader - brought his aircraft safely back to base, 150 miles from the point at which the Spitfire had been hit, although the elevator controls were out of action, Royal Air Force

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