CHOSE TO CRASH
PILOT OF DAMAGED PLANE DANGER TO VILLAGES AVERTED • British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Sept. 24. (Received Sept. 25, at 7 p.m.) How a pilot-officer chose a crash landing involving great risk to himself rather than abandon his machine, and so endanger villages in which his aircraft would probably have crashed, was told in the award of the D.F.C. to an Australian whose home is in Edwardstown, South Australia. During an attack on German bombers this officer, W. H. Millington, damaged a Dornier, but found himself engaged by three Messerschmitts. He damaged one of these, shook off the others, and returned to attack Nazi bombers. In a further attack on him by two Messerschmitts he brought c'own one. but a cannon shell from the other hit the engine, causing the ae”oplane to catch fire. Realising the danger the village towards which he was flying would be in from an uncontrolled blazing machine Millington kept his place and landed in a field. the petrol tanks buist just after the gallant pilot got clear of his machine
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 7
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