PLUCK AND ENDURANCE
PILOT OFFICER’S ATTACK ON GAZALA BRINGS PLANE-BACK DESPITE WOUNDS fßritish Official Wirelessl (Rec. 11.50 a.m.) Rugby, May 19. Splendid pluck and endurance was shown by a Pilot Officer engaged in an attack on the aerodrome at Gazala, in Libya. Diving very low with total disregard of the heavy ground fire he sprayed two large enemy aircraft on the ground until they were destroyed, then swooped on to a concentration of mechanised transport, braving a hail of machine-gun bullets. He received wounds in the head and shoulders and was losing blood rapidly when he turned the aircraft towards the Egyptian frontier 250 miles away. Lacking sufficient strength to reach his squadron’s base he made a successful landing within the British lines where he fainted as he was helped from the cockpit.’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 20 May 1941, Page 5
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