A MODEST V.C.
PRAISE FOR YOUNG SERGEANT. EFFLUENCE TO HIS PILOT. ✓ LONDON, October 5. Amongst the many congratulatory messages received by Sergeant Hannah on being awarded the V.C. is one from the Lord Provost of bis native Glasgow, who also invited Sergeant Hannah to visit him at the City Chamber. Discussing the action which earned him the V.C., Sergeant Hannah said: “It seems to me that most of the credit ought to go to. Pilot-Officer Connor. People do not fully realise that while I was doing my best with the fire lie was sitting up aloft as cool as a cucumber and taking no notice of the flames, which weire only two or three feet away from him, or the sounds of the bullets which were either whizzing Close to his head or hitting the armour-plating just above. PilotOfficer Connor, in a broadcast, said he was able to feel the heat of the fire and I am sure he must have done so. This must have .been very hot, yet through it all. he managed to pilot the aircraft right out of the barrage so I was able to get on with my part of the job without interference from heavy shells and tracer bullets.” — British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 309, 7 October 1940, Page 5
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