BERGEN EXPLOIT.
D.l'.C. FOlt AUSTRALIAN. ' j Received April 20. 11.5 am. LONDON. April 19. i Flying-Officer Derek Jack French, of Melbourne, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. The official report said that in the fare of intense anti-aircraft fire FlyingOfficer French attacked .a German cruiser in the Bergen roadstead, enabling his bomb aimer to secure a direct hit. The operation necessitated more than a thousand miles flying over the sea.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 7
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71BERGEN EXPLOIT. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 121, 20 April 1940, Page 7
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