AWARD TO AIRMAN
Bar To Distinguished Flying Cross
Information has been received by Air Headquarters, Wellington, that Acting Flight Lieutenant Lloyd Watt Coleman, D.F.C., has been awarded a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross. He is the third New Zealander to be awarded a bar to the D.F.C., Flying Officer B. J. G. Carbury and Flight Lieutenant A. C. Deere having achieved this distinction earlier.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Coleman was awarded the D.F.C. in November, 19-10. rhe citation stating that be attacked railway yards and locomotive sheds at Munich and. despite considerable anti-aircraft activity and the presence of balloons, glided down to 3500 feet and straddled the target with bombs.- He Hieti encircled the town, ordering his air gunners to put out as manv searchlights as possible. His mother. Mrs. B. M. Coleman, lives in Havelock North.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 199, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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137AWARD TO AIRMAN Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 199, 20 May 1941, Page 6
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