FOR FLIGHT LIEUTENANT WHO DAMAGED EIGHT ENEMY SHIPS AND NINE LOCOMOTIVES - (Picture issued 1943) Acting Flight Lieutenant MICHAEL JOHN GRAY, RAFVR., who has been awarded the This officer is a fine leader and a courageous pilot who has completed many long range reconnaissances in single seater fighters. During sorties in search of enemy shipping along the Dutch coast he located and reported accurately the position of numerous convoys. Flight Lieutenant Gray has damaged eight enemy vessels and nine locomotives. No aircraft has been lost from any formation led by him. On a recent so
FOR FLIGHT LIEUTENANT WHO DAMAGED EIGHT ENEMY SHIPS AND NINE LOCOMOTIVES - (Picture issued 1943) Acting Flight Lieutenant MICHAEL JOHN GRAY, RAFVR., who has been awarded the This officer is a fine leader and a courageous pilot who has completed many long range reconnaissances in single seater fighters. During sorties in search of enemy shipping along the Dutch coast he located and reported accurately the position of numerous convoys. Flight Lieutenant Gray has damaged eight enemy vessels and nine locomotives. No aircraft has been lost from any formation led by him. On a recent sortie he flew low through the streets of Ostend in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire. He has invariably displayed exceptional courage and navigational skill. He was born at Kew in at 1918 and his home is at Odiham. He was educated at the Old Ride Bournemouth and Harrow school. He was 2nd Lieutenant in the before transferring to the in 1941 as Pilot Officer. AWARDS LIST , Royal Air Force
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