Hail the Heroes ; Letters

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THE touching description of the gettogether of Victoria and George Cross holders, particularly the understandable nervousness of new VC Corporal Willie Apiata of the New Zealand SAS, recalls an anecdote of an earlier hero and another Prime Minister.

Sgt James Allen Ward won his VC in 1941 for climbing onto the wing of his Wellington bomber, 13,000ft above the Zuider Zee, secured only by a rope round his waist, to put out a fire on the starboard engine.

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Hail the Heroes ; Letters

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