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Corsair Victoria Cross

few minutes after 8 a.m. on August 9, 1945, the day when the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and only days before the war ended, Lt. Robert “Hammy” Hampton Gray, the “happy go lucky” Canadian senior pilot on 1841 NAS, led seven other Corsairs off the deck of HMS Formidable on the second Ramrod of the day. The captain of

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