"SUTTON & CHEAM" TYPHOON GETS SQUADRON'S FIRST ENEMYAIRCRAFT. - A Typhoon fighter, subscribed for by the Borough of Sutton & Cheam, recently had a swastika painted on its fuselage to mark its first success in combat with an A Canadian pilot - Flight Lieutenant Walter Ahrens of Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada, who was flying the "Borough of Sutton and Cheam" engaged the enemy aircraft. Another Typhoon pilot in his squadron also took a hand, and the German aircraft blew up and fell in pieces into the sea. The "Borough of Sutton and Cheam" has been flown by Flight Lieutenant Ahrens fifty t
"SUTTON & CHEAM" TYPHOON GETS SQUADRON'S FIRST ENEMYAIRCRAFT. - A Typhoon fighter, subscribed for by the Borough of Sutton & Cheam, recently had a swastika painted on its fuselage to mark its first success in combat with an A Canadian pilot - Flight Lieutenant Walter Ahrens of Rosetown, Saskatchewan, Canada, who was flying the "Borough of Sutton and Cheam" engaged the enemy aircraft. Another Typhoon pilot in his squadron also took a hand, and the German aircraft blew up and fell in pieces into the sea. The "Borough of Sutton and Cheam" has been flown by Flight Lieutenant Ahrens fifty time, and the pilot says it is a lucky aircraft. Picture (issued 1943) shows - Portrait of the "BOROUGH OF SUTTON AND CHEAM" with its pilot. See Bulletin Royal Air Force
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