Bishop Received The VC, Why Didn't Pritt?

Vin · 23 June 2005, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeW

Vin

Ha - you didn't say shoot down, you said downed.

Nitpick that one!

Personnally I think Warneford deserved a VC and bar for dropping a bomb onto a giant bag of Hydrogen, it's a bit like dropping a grenade down your pants to kill crabs!!

Mike

Got me. I really just wanted to use your big writing facility. I wonder what the folk living beneath the Zeppelin thought of a bloke dropping bombs in it. Not all of them would have exploded in mid air.

Barrett · 24 June 2005, 06:53 PM

For my money, THE classiest aerodrome attack was logged by Sgt. Tom Mottershead, who reportedly landed his FE-2 on a German field and had his gunner shoot up the flight line & hangars--then took off. Mottershead received a posthumous VC for pulling his gunner out of a burning Fee but maybe he shoulda had two Crosses!

Vin · 24 June 2005, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Barrett

...but maybe he shoulda had two Crosses!

That would be VC and Bar, wouldn't it ?