WW2 veteran gets air force flyover for 100th birthday

From Checkpoint, 5:41 pm on 13 July 2023

An air force plane has flown low over Palmerston North to say a special happy birthday.

World War 2 veteran Eddie Chapman is turning 100 today, quite the achievement for a man who spent his 21st birthday in a German prisoner of war camp.

Jimmy Ellingham reports.

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