"BONDS for bombers" week will be officially opened by Sergeant C. B. G. Knight, D.F.M., of the R.N.Z.A.F. (above), who was the first New Zealand airman to win an award for gallantry in the present war. He comes from Picton and was one of a group of airmen who went to England in 1939 expecting to fly Wellington bombers to New Zealand. On the outbreak of war he was transferred to operational duties in the United Kingdom. A wireless operator, he won his D.F.M, in February, 1940, for "skill and courage and coolness in the face of intense enemy fire" during operations over Germany.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 8
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104"BONDS for bombers" week will be officially opened by Sergeant C. B. G. Knight, D.F.M., of the R.N.Z.A.F. (above), who was the first New Zealand airman to win an award for gallantry in the present war. He comes from Picton and was one of a group of airmen who went to England in 1939 expecting to fly Wellington bombers to New Zealand. On the outbreak of war he was transferred to operational duties in the United Kingdom. A wireless operator, he won his D.F.M, in February, 1940, for "skill and courage and coolness in the face of intense enemy fire" during operations over Germany. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 143, 20 March 1942, Page 8
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