IMMEDIATE AWARD
D.F.M. FOR DOMINION AIRMAN
(N.Z.E.F. Official War Correspondent.)’, CAIRO, August'24. For outstanding bravery and initiative in operations over the Mediterranean, a New Zealand airman, Sergeant Alexander Raymond Brown, has been given the ■ immediate award of the Distinguished Flying Medal. The entire crew of the torpedo bomber in which he has flown for some time have been simultaneously honoured. The torpedo bomber was commanded by a South African, Lieutenant E. T. Strever, who has piloted the same aircraft in several successful torpedo- attacks on enemy shipping. Brown was a member of the crew on every occasion.
SUBMARINE SUCCESSES
(British Official Wireless.)
(Eec. 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 24. The Admiralty states that in the Central Mediterranean a submarine sank a medium-sized enemy supply ship which had been bombed and stopped by R.A.F. aircraft. When the submarine attacked, a tremendous explosion followed, and the ship sank immediately. Another submarine attacked an escorted convoy off the Norwegian coast, and hil; the leading merchant ship, which is'believed to have been sunk.
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Evening Star, Issue 24282, 25 August 1942, Page 3
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168IMMEDIATE AWARD Evening Star, Issue 24282, 25 August 1942, Page 3
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