WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO--
... WE TAKE OFF OUR HAT TO- Flight lieut. william reid, who has been awarded the V.C., was captain and pilot of a Lan caster briefed to attack Dusseldorf on the night of November 3. On the way he was wounded in two attacks, the oxygen system was put out of action, the navigator killed, and the wireless operator fatally injured, but Reid completed the journey of some 200 further miles over enemy ...