1940 Magnet Yearbook

28 THE MAGNET. 1940
Yesterday's Glory
JOHN ANDERSON. se
Editor's .role: This account is b.1.sed
on lh~ actual experience of a British
Flight COlllmander while fighting: the
('keds" in Russia in 1917. lIis bravery
and thal of his companion wa,~ rewarded
by the bestowing: of the D.5.0. 011 them
by the Duke of York. now Kin.e: of England-an
honour only SUfI)lane began 10 spin
toward earth. :\t the last moment, Pointer
skilfully pulled out and was forced to land
in an open field aboul a quarter of a mile
from the "Red" trOOps.
Andrews, seeing: his friend's danger, and
considering him too ~ood a pilot to be left
10 the tender mercies of the followers of
Lenin, shouted to his obsen'er that they
were goin~ down "her Pointer.
He quickly put his plane into a dive,
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