V.C. MISSING
Sergeant Pilot J, A. Ward
Official advice has been received
by Mr. and Mrs. P. 11. Ward, Wanganui, that their son, Sergeant Pilot J. A. Ward, V.C., was missing on air operations on September 15.
Sergeant Pilot Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for crawling out on to the wing of his plane to extinguish a fire on the return trip from an opera tional flight over Germany. The Wellington bomber of which lie was second pilot had been attacked by a Messerschmitt night fighter, and cannon tire had broken an oil pipe and started a blaze on the wing dangerously near the starboard engine. < Sergeant Ward crawled out of the astro-hatch of the plane and down on to the wing as the plane flew home over the North Sea, and held part of the engine cover over the incipient blaze. It was only on the urging of the rest of the crew that he wore a parachute while performing this hazardous feat.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 91, 26 September 1941, Page 3
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