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| Name: | John Everard Gurdon | Country: | England | Rank: | Captain | Service: | Royal Flying Corps | Squadrons: | 22 | Victories: | 28 | Born: | 24 May 1898 | Place of Birth: | Balham, Surrey | Died: | 14 April 1973 | Place of Death: | Alassio, Italy |
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| | In an historic dogfight known as "Two Against Twenty," Gurdon and his observer, John Thornton, together with Alfred Atkey and his observer, C.G. Gass, encountered 20 German scouts during the evening of 7 May 1918. In the epic battle that followed, Atkey and Gass shot down 5 enemy aircraft while Gurdon and Thornton knocked down 3. Gurdon and Atkey were both flying the Bristol F.2b. |
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