Distinguished Flying medal , Air Crew Europe group , WO/AG later Pilot Officer with fine recommendation with 83 (Hampdens) included the sinking of a 7000 ton enemy vessel on the 5th op and credited with bringing the aircraft home by visual loop indicator when the navigator’s instruments were lost due to enemy action. Later served with 515 Special Duties (Defiants) the first Electronic countermeasures (ECM) squadron, jamming enemy radar installations from October 1942 as the only such squadron in the RAF at that time. Later killed in 1943 having completed a tour of 32 ops + 2 , 1000 bomber raids with 14 OTU and 33 ‘jamming’ ops with 515

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