AIRMAN’S DEATH.
WINNER OF D.F.C. AMAZING FEAT RECALLED
GISBORNE, Alay 6.
An amazing feat of airmanship in a raid over North-west Germany on November 27 lasi; is recalled by the death of Pilot-Officer Kenneth Neil Gray who was killed in a flying accident’on Mav 1. A son of Mr and Mrs R. L. Gray! of Gisborne, lie won the Distinguished Flying Cross on Januaiy 7 for an action in which he was asscmiated with another New Zealander. He was 25 years old. . , , onmf , Their ’olanc was flying at ifX/Jtt when there was a blinding yellow flash and a deafening report. that resulted in stripping large sections of fabric from the wings. The machine went into a dizzy spiral dive and dropped _at an alarming rate before being checked bv the pilot, who is quoted as having said later: “Anyhow, we would have been ‘nit-wits’ to have let her fall into the sea after nulling her out of that drop through space.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 134, 7 May 1940, Page 8
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