TOOK DEAD MAN'S SEAT
RESOURCEFUL AIRMAN [from our own correspondent] LONDON*, Sept. .14 Acting-Sergeant Tan Blair was tlio navigator in a Hoval Air Force bomber Hying over the Libyan Desert. The machine was attacked by two Italian fighters and the pilot was killed. The bomber started to dive. Blair rushed to the control column and, with the help of the gunner, removed the pilot irom his seat. Then Blair, without previous living experience, Hew the bomber 350 miles back to his base and made a safe landing, lie has now been awarded the Distinguished Flying Modal. Blair's homo is in Glasgow.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23773, 28 September 1940, Page 12
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