AWARDED THE D.F.C.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1942, Page 2

AWARDED THE D.F.C.

? WELLINGTON AIRMAIL \. SEVERE TESTS OVERCOME MAGNIFICENTLY. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) - LONDON, May 31. Flight Lieutenant David Neville Milligan, of Wellington, has been awarded the D.F.C. The citation says: “He is a most courageous and determined pilot who has completed a large number of sorties, and three times, when his flying-boat developed engine failure, his superb airmanship was responsible for the safe return of the plane. On the first occasion one engine shed its propeller and then caught fire. Although the plane was vibrating badly, making it impossible to read the instrument panel, and in spite of bad weather, Flight Lieutenant Milligan succeeded in landing the-heavily laden plane safely. Two days later he experienced another engine failure, but succeeded in reaching his base, where .he made an emergency landing without the aid of a hare path. While he was taking off from Malta, during a heavy raid in March, a large bomb burst close to his plane. The explosion apparently affected the port engine cowling, and after an hour in the air the main cowling came partially adrift, causing the plane to lose height. Flight Lieutenant Milligan regained control and completed his flight safely. On each of these occasions he magnificently overcame extremely severe tests.”