BEAT JAPS OVER NICOBAR. OCTOBER 1944, FLEET AIR ARM PILOTS WHO SCORED SUCCESSES AGAINST JAPANESE PLANES DURING THE ROYAL NAVY'S ATTACK ON THE JAPANESE HELD ISLANDS OF NICOBAR. THREE ENEMY FIGHTERS WERE SHOT DOWN. - Left to right: Sub Lieut (A) E J Hawkins, RNVR, aged 21, of Cambridge; Sub Lieut (A) E T Wilson, SANF (V), aged 24, of Johannesburg, who accounted for two of the enemy; Lieut (A) R C Westfield, RNVR, of Sunbury-on-Thames, aged 26, who led the successful flight; and Sub Lieut (A) J D S Smithwick, RNVR, aged 21, of Liverpool, who accounted for the third enemy fighter. It was his first
BEAT JAPS OVER NICOBAR. OCTOBER 1944, FLEET AIR ARM PILOTS WHO SCORED SUCCESSES AGAINST JAPANESE PLANES DURING THE ROYAL NAVY'S ATTACK ON THE JAPANESE HELD ISLANDS OF NICOBAR. THREE ENEMY FIGHTERS WERE SHOT DOWN. - Left to right: Sub Lieut (A) E J Hawkins, RNVR, aged 21, of Cambridge; Sub Lieut (A) E T Wilson, SANF (V), aged 24, of Johannesburg, who accounted for two of the enemy; Lieut (A) R C Westfield, RNVR, of Sunbury-on-Thames, aged 26, who led the successful flight; and Sub Lieut (A) J D S Smithwick, RNVR, aged 21, of Liverpool, who accounted for the third enemy fighter. It was his first action
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