AIRMEN DECORATED
AWARDS TO NEW ZEALANDERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The following decorations have been awarded to New Zealand airmen:— D. 5.0.: Flying Officer Nicholas Joseph Matich, D.F.M. (father, Mr. V. Matich, Dargaville). Bar to D.F.C.: Squadron Leader William Hectoi’ Stratton, D.F.C. (next-of-kin, Mr. T. R. Surrey, Hawera). Acting Flight Lieutenant John Charles Kennedy Fabian, D.F.C. (next-of-kin, Mrs. M. D. Fabian, Wellington). Matich and Fabian were part of the crew of an aircraft detailed to attack Dusseldorf one night in April. While over the target, their aircraft was hit by cannon fire from a fighter. At the same time, a high explosive shell burst just below the bomber, flying shrapnel killing two of the crew and wounding two others.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1944, Page 4
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