HERO’S MODESTY.
SERGEANT-PILOT WARD. ; HIS EXPLOIT DESCRIBED. (Rec. 1.13 p.ffi.) LOMDGtf, Aug. 3. Sergeant Pilot Ward was nonchalant and modest ih. describing his crawl along the wing to fight the flames threatening to destroy a Wellington bomber that was returning from a raid on 'Germany. “I. hopped out oil tlie Wing, kicked holes down the side of the fuselage for footholds. I held oh with one hand until I liad two footholds on the wing then baUght sothe sections of the wing which lvad heeh blasted by cannon shells. Using the other hand I got down flat. Once I could not get enough hold and the Wind lifted hie partly from the wing and Sent' me back against the fuselage. Once or twifc'c I thought l was going overboard. -After the engine cover blew away I had nothing to do except get back again. The navigator kept a strain On the rope and I pulled inySclf back to the astro-hatch, holding on as tightly as I could.
“Getting baCk was worse than, gotting out aitcl the hardest bit of the Jot was getting my right leg in. Finally the navigator. reached out and pulled it hi.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 252, 6 August 1941, Page 6
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