AIR HEROES
LATEST BRITISH AWARDS. PILOT WHO HAS DESTROYED 22 PLANES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 9. Pilot-Officer Lock, of the R.A.F. Volunteer Reserve, who has already gained the Distinguished Flying Cross with bar since September, receives the [Distinguished Service Order in the latest list of R.A.F. awards. His latest exploit was to destroy two Messerschmitt 109 when in action with his squadron against superior forces, bringing his total successes to 22 planes. When Pilot-Officer Lock gained the D.F.C. it was stated that he had destroyed eight enemy aircraft within a week. The bar to the D.F.C. resulted from a patrol action in the Dover area, where he engaged three Heinkel 113 s. shooting one down, and • destroyed a Heinkel 126 immediately afterward. The D.F.C. is also awarded to Act-ing-Squadron Leader D. S. McDonald, who has taken part in 81 missions against the enemy. Sergeant A. MacDowell. who has destroyed 14 aircraft, gains a bar to his D.F.M.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 6
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158AIR HEROES Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1940, Page 6
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