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WARD, James Allen (1919-41) b. Wanganui
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/7572/nzvcross.txt
WARD, James Allen (1919-41) b. Wanganui, a school-teacher before the war.
Won the Victoria Cross, in World War Two, in July 1941. He climbed out
along the wing of a Wellington bomber to push a canvas engine cover into a
hole near an engine, to block petrol from keeping a fire going, thereby
saving the crew from having to abandon the aircraft which was returning
from a bombing raid.
Sergeant-Pilot Ward was killed in action two months later, after he had
been given command of a 75 Squadron bomber. He was returning from a raid
on Hamburg when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire, keeping the plane
aloft long enough for his crew to bail out but in the end crashing with it.
Кстати, до войны учитель, пишуть...