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    Valor A Wing and a Prayer

    Dec 22, 2020 2 minutes
    By Chuck Lyons

    Norman Cyril Jackson

    Royal Air Force

    Victoria Cross

    Germany

     April 26–27, 1944

    Twenty-five-year-old RAF flight engineer Sgt. Norman Jackson had just completed his required 30-mission first tour in April 1944 when he agreed to fly one more mission in order to finish with his original seven-man Lancaster bomber crew. That decision led Jackson to perform, as his Victoria Cross citation

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