LOST BOTH LEGS
BUT FIGHTS IN WAR GALLANT BRITISH AIRMAN (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 21 Among the names appearing in the list of awards to Royal Air Force officers is that of Squadron-Leader Bader, who received the Distinguished Service Order. This gallant officer lost both legs in an aeroplane crash before the war, but such was his enthusiasm to continue flying that, on the outbreak of war—by which- time he had accustomed himself so well to the use of artificial limbs that he was proficient at many games—he persuaded a medical board to allow him to undergo a test at the Central Flying School. This test he passed with distinction and shortly afterward was flying Spitfires. He has recently been posted Canadian Hurricane squadron, which he now leads.
Under Squadron-Leader Bader’s command, this squadron recently gave successful battle to a formation of more than 70 German aero - planes, bringing down 14 of them without so much as a bullet hole in any of the Hurricanes.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21225, 23 September 1940, Page 7
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168LOST BOTH LEGS Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21225, 23 September 1940, Page 7
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