GAVE LIFE FOR HIS CREW
BOMBER CAPTAIN GETS THE V.C.
P.A. Cable.
LONDON ,Oct. 23.
The Victcria Cross has been awarded posthumouslv to Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser, who captained a bomber that took part in the 1000-bomber raid on Cologne. Flying Officer Manser, a mernber of the Home Guard until he jodned the R.A.F. in 1940, stayed at the- controls of his damaged Manchester after bombing Cologne to enable his crew to parachute to safety. He then crashed with the machine. Flying Officer Manser fought his wa-y through heavy fire to the target and bombed it, but on the way back he was unable to avold the searchlights and flak and the plane was hit again and again. Ihe rear-gun-ner was killed, the port engine burst into flames and the pilot's cabin filled with smoke. The intrepid officer grimly pushed on until the remaining engine petered out. Flying Officer Manser then ordered his crew to bail out, He ."efused a parachute for hirnself and stayed at the controls steadymg the aircraft until they had all gone. As the crew were descending they saw the plane plunge . to earth and burst , into flames.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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193GAVE LIFE FOR HIS CREW Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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