Historicist: From Sunday School Teacher to Victoria Cross Recipient – Torontoist


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Historicist: From Sunday School Teacher to Victoria Cross Recipient
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With one engine gone and a wing shredded by anti-aircraft fire after an engagement with a German submarine in June 1944, Flight Lieutenant David E. Hornell crash-landed his Canso flying boat in the North Atlantic hundreds of kilometres from land