'Ten-Ton Tess' pilot gets bar to DSO
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'Ten-Ton Tess' pilot gets bar to DSO
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The pilot who dropped the first 'Ten-Ton Tess' bomb on Germany was awarded bar to DSO.
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'Ten-ton Tess' pilot gets bar to D.S.O.
The R.A.F. pilot who dropped the first "Ten-ton Tess" bomb on Germany in an attack on Bielefeld viaduct on March 14 has been awarded a bar to his D.S.O.
He is Acting Wing-Commander Charles Cranston Calder, D.S.O., D.F.C., of Dumphail, Morayshire.
The R.A.F. pilot who dropped the first "Ten-ton Tess" bomb on Germany in an attack on Bielefeld viaduct on March 14 has been awarded a bar to his D.S.O.
He is Acting Wing-Commander Charles Cranston Calder, D.S.O., D.F.C., of Dumphail, Morayshire.
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“'Ten-Ton Tess' pilot gets bar to DSO,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/33775.
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