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CRASHED WITH HIS PLANE. RATHER THAN ENDANGER VILLAGE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 24. How a pilot officer chose a crash landing involving great risk to himself rather than abandon his machine and so endanger a village in which his aircraft probably would have crashed is told in the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to an Australian whose home is in Edwardstown, South Australia. During an attack on German bombers this officer. W. H. Millington, damaged a Dornier but found himself engaged by three Messerschmitts. He damaged one of these and shook off the others, and then returned to attack other Nazi bombers. In a further attack on him by two Messerschmitts he brought down one, but a cannot shell from the other hit his engine, causing the aeroplane to catch fire. Realising the danger a village toward which he was flying would be in from the uncontrolled, blazing machine Pilot Officer Millington kept his place and landed in a field. The petrol tanks burst just after the gallant pilot had got clear of his machine.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1940, Page 6
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