BLIND PILOT'S FEAT
Although he was blind through eyewounds suffered in a fight at 18,000 ft, a young R.A.F. pilot brought his plane safely back to base. The story was told at.a Glasgow luncheon by the Lord Provost, who said that th"c pilot was a Scot. "His plane," said the- Lord Provost, "had been hit and disabled. -. Although'blinded by shrapnel he brought the plane home more by. instinct than by anything else. When members .of the ground staff went to help him out of the machine they saw that he-- was blind. He was taken to hospital, and after treatment the sight of one eye. was restored. He was told, however, that the other eye "would have to be removed. This operation should have been performed a week before he attended' Buckingham Palace to be decorated for his exploit. But he refused until after his visit to the Palace."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1941, Page 11
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149BLIND PILOT'S FEAT Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1941, Page 11
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