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Show Milford Aviator Gets Nazi Planes First Lieutenant John L. Grim-shaw Grim-shaw of Milford, P-51 Mustang pilot in the 364th Fighter group, destroyed a Fo-cke Wulf-190 and damaged a Messerschmitt-109 in aerial combat over Germany recently, re-cently, according to a release received re-ceived by The News from an Eighth Air Force Fighter station, somewhere in England. Leading his flight down after three diving enemy aircraft, he closed in rapidly on one and peppered bullets about its cockpit and wing root. "He bailed out just as I passed under him," Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Grimshaw related. "After I took pictures of the crash, I pulled up and 'spotted an Me-109 a thousand feet above me. I climbed after him and got in hits from 600 yards, but he flew into a cloud and I lost him." Lieutenant Grimshaw wears the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters and also has credit for damaging an enemy airplane on the ground. He was given his wings at Williams Field, Arizona, on November 3, 1943. A graduate of Milford High school and a former form-er student of Henager Business college, he was warehouse manager mana-ger for a local store prior to entering enter-ing the service in July, 1942. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Clarence, R. Grimshaw of Milford. |