Ex-mech crawls into wing, comes out with a gong
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Ex-mech crawls into wing, comes out with a gong
Description
Newspaper cutting relating describing how Sergeant George Fallon became the first Canadian flight engineer to win a DFM. He cut a hole in fuselage and crawled into the wing to repair a broken oil line and switch petrol tanks.
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One newspaper cutting
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SKaneWB19210816v10002
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“Ex-mech crawls into wing, comes out with a gong,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed June 13, 2025, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/50894.