Picture No | 10638792 |
Date | 1945 |
Description | Norman Cyril Jackson, V.C winner |
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Warrant Officer Norman Cyril Jackson(1919-1994), Victoria Cross winner, as he appeared in the Illustrated London News, 1945. As a flight sergeant, Jackson was decorated for conspicous bravery, when, inspite of his wounds, he climbed out onto the fuselage of his Lancaster Bomber while on a mission over Schweinfurt, to put out a fire started by an enemy fighter near the petrol tank.
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Source | Unattributed photograph in the Illustrated London News, 1945 3rd November page 498. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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