The Australian Squadron Leader F. A. O. Tony Gaze DFC** had flown Meteor jets with 616 Sqn in the final days of the war. He finished the war with eleven victories and three shared destroyed, including an Me262 and Arado 234 jets: four probables and a V-1 ‘Doodlebug’. He was both the first Australian to destroy an enemy jet in combat, and the first Australian to fly a jet in combat. (But not all at the same time!
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