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Ernest Henry "Barney" D'ath-Weston

Royal New Zealand Air Force 115 Squadron

from:New Zealand

Being awarded Navigators Wings at Portage La Prairie in Canada

Ernest D'ath-Weston started pilot training at RNZAF Station Bell Block. He was out with his mates in their Tiger Moths when they saw some young ladies in the surf. The young ladies waved at them and had forgotten their bathing suits so some very low flying occurred. A local farmer reported them and Mr D'ath-Weston was then made a navigator.

Coming back one time they saw Cologne burning but were not involved. They were hit by flack coming back from a raid in Wellington and ditched near Holland I think and were picked up by a German seaplane which tipped them into the water using one of it's floats. He was liberated from the POW Camp by the Russians later.



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