Flak Hit Bombs

Flak Hit Bombs

Londoners Got Plane Home

A newspaper cutting about the night Warrant Officer Bill Walker succeeded in bringing their badly damaged aircraft back. Mentions award of two Conspicuous Gallantry Medals and two Distinguished Flying Medals.

One newspaper cutting

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FLAK HIT BOMBS
Londoners Got Plane Home
By Our Air Correspondent
For bringing back safely from a Hanover raid a flak and fire-damaged Lancaster which only had two engines working properly Warrant Officer C.J. S. Walker, the pilot of Thornton Heath, and Sergeant S. Mayer, engineer, of Balham, have won the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, and Sergeant R. Hebditch, wireless operator, and Sergeant Geoffrey Whittle, navigator, son of Mr. A. Whittle, South Park-crescent, Catford, the D.F.M. They put out the fire, and next day a piece of flak was found in the bomb bay.