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Posted: **Fri May 05, 2006 11:35 pm**

One of New Zealands WW2 heroes recently died, Johnny Checketts.

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/internati ... 4000c.html

Thought I'd pass it on for you Spitfire Historians...

Posted: **Sat May 06, 2006 12:25 am**

This is sad news (but 94 is an amazing innings)

I'm just reading another NZ Spitfire aces book at the moment Jack Rae and Johnny features in it quite a bit.

Posted: **Sat May 06, 2006 4:35 pm**

Must confess to having not read the story on Checketts. By my
maths he must have been an old man of 27 (ish) when the war started - a ripe old age considering most of our flyers were mere boys of 19 or so.

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