FOR ACTING SQUADRON LEADER WHO BOMBED GENOA - Acting Squadron Leader Will David Gordon Watkins, DFM., who has been awarded the The citation reads "Since being awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal this bomb aimer has participated in many operational sorties. In October 1942, he took part in an attack on Genoa and made four runs over the target area to ensure his bombs would strike their objective. On a previous occasion he was detailed to act as navigator and bomb aimer on a sortie over Hamburg. Despite the terrifically heavy defences, he made four runs over the target and obtai
FOR ACTING SQUADRON LEADER WHO BOMBED GENOA - Acting Squadron Leader Will David Gordon Watkins, DFM., who has been awarded the The citation reads "Since being awarded the Distinguished Flying Medal this bomb aimer has participated in many operational sorties. In October 1942, he took part in an attack on Genoa and made four runs over the target area to ensure his bombs would strike their objective. On a previous occasion he was detailed to act as navigator and bomb aimer on a sortie over Hamburg. Despite the terrifically heavy defences, he made four runs over the target and obtained two excellent photographs. Squadron Leader Watkins always display great determination to locate and bomb the target. His coolness and courage under fire are outstanding and his devotion to duty has been a high example." AWARDS , Royal Air Force
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