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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Hartmann and Marseille
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Date: 18 Dec 90 01:57:39 GMT
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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
>  I'd like to put in a plug for George "Buzz" Buerling (sp?), a Canadian 
>who participated in the defence of Malta.  Perhaps not as great as Marseille,
>but Buerling was reputed to have been able to use few shells, but able to
>tell how many and where they hit.  I think Buerling had around forty kills
>in total before he himself was shot down. 


The defence of Malta for some time was carried out by
three Gloster Gladiator biplanes (dubbed Faith, Hope 
and Charity). Was Buerling one of the Gladiator pilots?
Pretty amazing, considering they faced an enemy with
far superior numbers of higher performance aircraft.

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