ESSEX MAN IS PIONEER IN TYPHOONS - An Essex fighter pilot, Squadron Leader Gowers DFC. , of Chelmsford, today leads one of Fighter Command's Typhoon bomber Leader Gowers joined the in 1937 and went to France in the first week of the war. He bagged his first Hun over Tournay during the invasion of the Low Countries. Back in England, the squadron reformed for the Battle of Britain. Gowers was shot down and was kept off flying for four months, and when he rejoined his unit, it had changed to night fighters. He was awarded the DFC in June 1941. In 1942 Gowers joined
ESSEX MAN IS PIONEER IN TYPHOONS - An Essex fighter pilot, Squadron Leader Gowers DFC. , of Chelmsford, today leads one of Fighter Command's Typhoon bomber Leader Gowers joined the in 1937 and went to France in the first week of the war. He bagged his first Hun over Tournay during the invasion of the Low Countries. Back in England, the squadron reformed for the Battle of Britain. Gowers was shot down and was kept off flying for four months, and when he rejoined his unit, it had changed to night fighters. He was awarded the DFC in June 1941. In 1942 Gowers joined the first Typhoon fighter squadron and later was chosen to lead a Typhoon bomber squadron. Picture (issued 1943) shows - Squadron Leader Gowers, DFC of Chelmsford. , Royal Air Force
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