A MODEST V.C.
SERGEANT HANNAH’S STORY
TRIBUTE TO PILOT V,.. LONDON, Oct. 5.. Oct. 6, at 9.30 p.m.) : Among the many congratulatory messages received by Sergeant John Hannah on being awarded the V.C. is one from the Lord Provost of his native city, Glasgow, who also invited Sergeant Tlannah to visit him at the City Chamber. .. Discussing the action which earned him the V.C., Sergeant Hannah said: “It seems to me that the most credit ought to go to Pilot-officer Connor. People do not fully realise that whilst 1 was doing my best with the fixe, he was sitting up aloft, as cool as a cucumber, faking no notice of the flames, which were only two to three feet away from him, nor of the sounds of bullets which were either whizzing close to his head or hitting the armour-plating just above him ” “ Pilot-officer Connor, in a broadcast,” Sergeant Hannah continued “said that. he..was able to feel the heat of the fire, and I am sure that he must have done so This must have b°en very hot, and yet, through it all. he managed to pilot, our aircraft right out of the barrage so that I Was able to get on with my part of the job without interference from heavy shells and tracer bullets.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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216A MODEST V.C. Otago Daily Times, Issue 24422, 7 October 1940, Page 8
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