DARING PILOT

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 258, 28 September 1940, Page 8

DARING PILOT

LOW BOMBING ATTACK. • NEW ZEALANDER’S D.F.C. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 2.5 p.m.) LONDON.. Sept. 27. Pilot-Officer Frank Henderson Denton, of Greymouth, has been awarded the D.F.C. . The citation says he showed great resource and daring in successfully attacking the Chartres aerodrome from a very low altitude, although the enemy tried to tempt him with a dummy flare path. On another occasion, fading to locate a target in the Ruhr owing to severe weather, he decided to attack the docks and shipping at Flushing. He broke through cloud at ICOQtt and, through a devastating curtain of tire, released his bombs at an altitiide so low that the force of the explosions rocketed the plane hundreds of feet. He saw large fires, and explosions, and brought 'his plane back to the ba»e with difficulty. There.were gaping holes in each wing. , ... , . Pilot-Officer Denton has participated in 24 major bombing raids. He is a determined and courageous captain. and carries the complete confidence o his crew and associates. HAVOC AT LE HAVRELe Havre was last night Bombed lor 2j hours by the R.A.F. and the ■ docks, reduced to a mass of'fires and meek°Arriving during a raid on. .Jfridaj moriiin" the King arid Queen visited a north-west London suburb which had been damaged by bombs. , . ■ , While Their Majesties .were loolun at a crater in the; middle ot n. gjceu surrounded by damaged houses , a aircraft shells burst above A ciovd of several hundred assembled to welcome Their Majesties, who were asked by the police to take cover. The Kin and Queen, with obvious reluctance, entered the car and were driven off to continue their visits in another l <. of London.