a convivial occasion. The picture was taken for a French magazine while
Gray was stationed in Franco during tho "phoney war.”:
...
astern," peller, then, fallitur on its lay broken and burning on the nose, it tore earthwards, crashed ground, the western truss of into the ground, and blew up. the bridge hung shattered in the
Almost immediately
after-air."
achievet,
the attack
with the weight of the struggle
safely. Manschl pull out. foliowed and made as Thomas fought to
a safe exit, Now the flak, which had been
The space of half
a minute silent all the way dawn, opened between their exit times meant "Form into ilne
from all direction, as the difference between Ave called Garland on the R/T. "But," and he now
though commanded by Я усать
Streamers of fire eul through In a P.O.W. camp for single voice. the words of the operation order
Patterson and escape behind the the formation and tore skywards
as the three Bailles strung out wards, McIntosh and his crow For their leadership of the he had received, "these two ght leaders. Darland decided
As he pulled out and began allied lines for Mansell, "Enemy fighter on our tall." bridges must be destroyed at all on a low-level approach all the The drill of the German a steep climb for cloud cover
attack on this bridge, Garland and into a long arrow and ploughed were taken prisoner, Mansell
a storm of flak and aircraft Patterson had gone Davy began through
And Garland, the leader of and hir 27-year-old, observer, way. Thomps Intended a ground gunners was impeccable. 6,000ft, up he felt the The hubbub of volunteer-high level approach,
the violence of to think about Taking As the fighter closed in, all flak stagger from
the fight? exit, machine-gun fire,
Sergeant "Dolly" Gray, who ing was cut short when some advantage of any cloud cover, ceased.
the dak. He would be shot to Then he noticed that the smose
There is a story about Ger- had joined the R.A.F. at 16, one said: "Put the names in then a last-minute dive at the "Thomas called Davy on the pieces before he reached 1,000 from the wing was thinning out. All three aircraft were hit land's attack which it is im- with a passion to fly, were post-
possible to substantiate. He pushed
Yet humously awarded the Brat alr the nose down The fire seemed to have stopped, repeatedly. It was McIntosh's radio and warned him of the
it in fercely believed by some V.Cs of the war, fighter. It looked as though again, completing the hump of He kept the plane flying long plane that was knocked out" Thomas's flight started badly.
switchback, and threw the enough to bring it down safely first. A ruptured fuel
of the men of 12 Squadron. "What in fact did pipe Davy's aircraft would be the One of his planes had radio
first to be attacked. Thomas aircraft at the ground, flatten in a field near his base.
The story relates how Char caused a mass of flames just trouble at take-off, and WB3
could not stay to help him, ing out giddily at 20ft. for Garland's fight got the
While it was claimed later off to behind the pilot. Scorched by land's aircraft was badly hit by Thomas and
'The bridge. they said, left behind.
Carey o That mattered fast, low-level getaway.
better start. The three flames,
that the damage to the bridges choked by. smoke, dok on the final run le lown by Pilot Offcer
more than anything else.
Campion rolled
And then, it is sald, Garland, contributed in no smalt way to and their
at
and planes pliated by him, Flying McIntosh had to turn away and Own
His gaze settled hypnotically groaned with the strain
miracle of it. Oficer Mcintosh, and Sergeant jettison his bombs. He made a in his utler determination to the
of Dunkirk, in heavy They run into
on the bridge and on a building But
per- Marland, the dak remained
flew without incident perfect belly landing. He and wreck the bridge, fused his retrospect it is clear that the they much sooner than
He aligned his sistent und deadly accurate. at 2,000ft, for the first stage.
Impact, his badly injured crew hid in a bomba to explode on
Germans were already, across expected. Evidently the German on the far side.
that the Arst part
Nearing the
they ditch. target,
dived the airplane straight. advanced
at the Mans . In strength and that much reraft columns had
Bombs been known of the dive was fairly shallow, They were hit rgain and again.
"Petrol's pouring into the air dropped down to suit,
As they sai there bandaging the target and never pulled out. the temporary loss of one canal They went from a grass air- further than had
sleepening the angle so
were fused for an iisecs, delay, cach other's wounds, they heard
crossing and the damaging of held ear Rielms in two nights at the briefing.
Ground batteries and a road
Stretched out in the bomb the sound of an aircraft to the
another, held them up but Hitle. As Thomas erme below the when he released the bombs the craft" called Curey.
the hammering away wells,
observers saw north, and a meinent later, over Perhaps a
The attack on the bridges wOB convoy were
probable Officer and he got a glimpse of the aircraft would be vertical.
of trees to explanation is Got Garland, one of the great tragic opera- at them, but he was too low nothing but a smooth carpet of the tops of a line Donald Garland, a
of Maastricht directly fair-haired town
to take cvasive action.
green flowing past below them. their right, there appeared to make certain of hitting the tlons of war, a gallant but polut- Irishman un short-service ahead, cut in half by the wind-
less sacrifice which, like, the A 4,000 feet he pointed. the
Then suddenly they felt the Battle, staggering along at 30ft., bridge, went in so low that he Suddenly the engine petered commission,
led by ing river. All the bridges over the other
bump flames pouring from the canopy never had the faintest chance Charge airplanes take and
of the Light: Brigado, Flying Officer Norman Thomas. the river were down. The flak rpinner of the propeller at the out altogether and the aircraft
cank. A Then he saw the bridge and held on.
moment later they
with what ther at first and smoke trailing out to the of getting out. That would will live longer and remain a Dorset man who was senior intenslled.
certainly thought was air turbulence. rear,
Arms have been consistent an Inspiration to British to Gurland by nearly a year,
With one eye he watched the touched down in a feld.
Machine guns opened up' on
they realised it was They thought they recognised with the state of mind in which long after many more brilliantly They went in six Fairey And there was the concrete altimeter unwinding, while the
mlases from German the plane as that of Sergeant he approached the action.
successful operations are form Battle bombers. The Dattle bridge he had been briefed Battle screamed and shuddered the crew, who were still miracu-
Marland, coming out of his It seems likely that Garland's gotten. Handled benuifully. But its to attack. It was trim, neat us it gathered speed. Carey, the lously unhurt. There was only
crashed immediately Campion, observer, and
Gurland's observer, Sergeant attack on the bridge, hopelessly aircraft and unmarked.
the one thing to do: surrender.
COPYRIGHT: single engine, long green-house
their
Gray judged Although Thomas had seen a "Dolly'
the crippled but trying desperately beyond the bridge. One thing, He swung round to the north gunner, struggled to hold type crew compartiment, Its slow
around approach perfectly. Soon they to reach his own lines.
however, is certain, Garland's speed and lack of modern de- cast of the town, aiming to go position in the fuselage as the cluster of bomb-bursts
the bridge he had no idea what saw the neat, red-roofed Dutch
1961. The three men in the ditch formation destroyed the bridge. fensive armament marked it out into his dive from the far side aircraft stood on its nase
had donc. he
Ho town of Maastricht ahead of lensed and stood up In the bomb-racks were four damage
as the To quote the RAF. Short belonging
"Either to an earlier of the canal and make
B.A.F. 1939-45 Vol. 1. Garland or decade. To allempt the opera- away to the south-west towards 250-lb bombs. Thomas released wondered how Dayy had fared. them. In the distance lay the Battle suddenly turned through History:
Tho Fight pulled up Merland-and all the available
Qads, Patterson. Davy's Kunner, a metal bridge which was their 90 degrees and then 11on in such a machine
he was about them individually in the dive. was Belgium. But
scraps of evidence Indicate that publihed by Her Madaly's abnost curtain suicide.
to dive Into the
his the first from 3,000 feet and the Canadian, had in fact shot down target, a mille or two north of almost vertically. attack
Then he heaved the Aghter, and Davy bad the Concrete bridge alrendy For a moment it seemed to it was Garland found the Stationery Office. Each flight would attack one unner called him on the inter- last from 400.
hong from the sky on its
Battles pro- mark; for though the followed Thomas_down" in the attacked by the other fight, bridge. Method was init to the com,
_back_on_the_stick
of three planes, one led by
2-year-old Flying
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