TO SAVE VILLAGERS
PILOT'S CRASH LANDING Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, Sept. 24. How a pilot officer chose a crash landing involving a great risk to himself rather than abandon his machine and so endanger villages in which his aircraft would probably have crashed, was told in the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to an Australian whose home is at Edwardstown, South Australia. During an attack on German bombers this officer, Pilot Officer W. H. Mil'Iington, damaged a Dornier, but found himself engaged by three Messerschmitts. He damaged one of these, shook off the others, and returned to attack the Nazi bombers. In a further attack on hyn by two Messerschmitts he brought down one, but a cannon shell from the other hit his engine, causing the aeroplane to catch fire. Realising the danger the village towards which he was flying would be in from an uncontrolled, blazing machine. Pilot Officer Millington kept his place and landed in a field. The petrol tanks burst just after the gallant pilot got clear of his machine.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 September 1940, Page 7
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