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VICTORIA CROSS

WON BY AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN HAZARDOUS OPERATION IN DAYLIGHT. PLANNED BY HIMSELF. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, July 21. A hazardous operation in daylight, “planned personally, with a full knowledge of the risks entailed,” gains the V.C. for an Australian airman, who had already won the D.F.C. for a successful operation. He is Acting Wing Commander H. I. Edwards, who, since serving as a cadet in the R.A.A.F. since 1935, has undertaken flying in several R.A.F. squadrons with distinction.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 6

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84

VICTORIA CROSS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 6

VICTORIA CROSS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 July 1941, Page 6

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