BAR TO D.F.C.
THIRD N.Z. AIRMAN
DARING AT MUNICH ,■ ,
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.
Acting Flight Lieutenant Coleman 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, 1940, the citation stating that he 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 then' encircled the town, his air gunners to put out as many searchlights as possible.
/ His mother, Mrs. B. M. Coleman, •lives in Havelock North.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 8
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