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Flying Officer Leslie Thomas Manser VC
RAF 50 Squadron

(d.31st May 1942)
50 Squadron Manchester crashed on 30th May 1942 in occupied Belgian. It had been hit by flak over Cologne, very severely damaged and subsequently abandoned by six of the crew, after which the Manchester crashed 0200 31May42 into a dyke at Bree (Limburg), 21 km NNE of Genk, Belgium. The event resulted in the pilot F/O Leslie Manser receiving a posthumous VC for holding the aircraft until the crew could bail out. He was 20 years old.

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