20 July - 1940 - Australia's Spitfire Ace

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Australia On This Day

65 episodes

9 months ago

What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

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What happened on this day back in the day? From the creator of Forgotten Australia, this is your daily dose of the stories that made headlines and sometimes made history.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

20 July - 1940 - Australia's Spitfire Ace

Australia On This Day

17 minutes 23 seconds

4 years ago

20 July - 1940 - Australia's Spitfire Ace

REPEAT: 81 years ago today the Battle of Britain was raging. Among those taking on the Nazis in Spitfires was a handful of young Australian pilots on secondment to the RAF. On this day in that desperate time, Brisbane-born Gordon Olive made his mark with his first confirmed Luftwaffe kill — setting himself on the path to becoming one of our few Battle of Britain Spitfire aces.

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