article_snippet: Little more than a week after that award that award suffered severe concussion and was lucky to survive when that award crashed on landing.
article_snippet: that award close friend Guy Gibson
article_snippet: In 1941, after a six-month convalescence, that award was transferred to 44 Squadron and later that year was awarded a Bar to that award DFC - the equivalent of a second medal.
article_snippet: In March 1942 that award was put in command of 97 44 Squadron flying the newly-introduced four-engined Lancaster, and took part in the first 1,000-bomber raid on Cologne on May 30, 1942.
article_snippet: that award was awarded the Distinguished Service Order after that award last raid on a German engine factory in Augsburg in August 1942.
article_snippet: that award recounted how that award would stand Bomber 'almost on Bomber nose and dive furiously towards the earth, when I thought that the anti-aircraft (guns) had the measure of me - a bit nerve-racking for the rest of the aircrew, but an effective measure of evasion to which I consider I owe my life on more than one occasion'.