The Independent - London, June 27th, 1997
As leader of 603 Squadron George Denholm was involved in the shooting down of the first German aircraft over British soil at the start of the Second World War. This was at Port Seton in East Lothian, the aircraft a Heinkel 1-11 bomber which had orders to destroy the three-cantilever Forth Railway Bridge.
A year later during the Battle of Britain, in September 1940, Denholm had to bale out of his Spitfire over Kent, just after he had shot down a couple of raiding German planes. Weeks afterwards, he was yet again shot down, after engagement in combat. He was promptly awarded, in October 1940, w...
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