Crash Landing to Save Village
PILOT-OFFICER’S HEROISM (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 24. How a pilot-officer chose a crash landing involving great risk to himseJf rather than abandon his machine and so endanger the villages in which his aircraft would probably have eras!red is told in the award of the D.F.C. to an
Australian whose homo is in Edwardstown, South Australia. During an attack on German bombers this officer (Pilot-Officer AV. H. Millington) damaged a Dornier but found himself engaged by three Messerschmitts. He damaged one of these, shook off the others and returned to the attack on the Nazi bombers. In a further attack on him by two Messerschmitts ho brought down one but a cannon shell from the other hit the engine causing the aeroplane to catch fire.
Realising the danger to a village towards which he was flying would be in
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Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 229, 27 September 1940, Page 9
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