AMERICAN AWARD
TO GALLANT NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN. LEADER OF SQUADRON IN SOLOMONS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 13. The Navy has awarded the D.F.C. to Flight Lieutenant W. R. B. Watson, leader of a New Zealand squadron serving with the United States Marines on Guadalcanal, for “outstanding leadership and unyielding devotion to duty which contributed greatly to the success of our forces.” Flight Lieutenant Watson led the squadron on its first night bombing raid on Munda airfield, successfully bombing the runway despite heavy anti-aircraft fire and bad weather.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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93AMERICAN AWARD Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1943, Page 4
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