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Flight Lieutenant Rod Learoyd...

history · 12 August 1940 · 84 years ago

Flight Lieutenant Rod Learoyd of 49 Squadron based at RAF Scampton won a Victoria Cross for pressing home an attack on the Dortmund-Ems Canal despite his Hampden bomber being badly shot up. 

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