Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37324/supplements/5233. No. 905192 Sergeant Norman Cyril Jackson, 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. On 26th April 1944 after bombing Schweinfurt, Germany, the Lancaster in which Sergeant Jackson was flight engineer, was hit by an enemy fighter and fire broke out. Having asked permission to try to deal with it, Sergeant Jackson clipped on his parachute and, with a fire extinguisher, climbed on to the fuselage of the aircraft which was travelling at 200mph at 20,000ft. He tried to put out the fire, but his parachute partly opened and he slipped on to the wing. The fire spread and he was badly burned, then he was swept from the wing with his partly inflated, burning parachute trailing behind him. He landed heavily, breaking an ankle, and was taken prisoner.
Fold3_Team · Oct 30, 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/37324/supplements/5233. No. 905192 Sergeant Norman Cyril Jackson, 106 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. On 26th April 1944 after bombing Schweinfurt, Germany, the Lancaster in which Sergeant Jackson was flight engineer, was hit by an enemy fighter and fire broke out. Having asked permission to try to deal with it, Sergeant Jackson clipped on his parachute and, with a fire extinguisher, climbed on to the fuselage of the aircraft which was travelling at 200mph at 20,000ft. He tried to put out the fire, but his parachute partly opened and he slipped on to the wing. The fire spread and he was badly burned, then he was swept from the wing with his partly inflated, burning parachute trailing behind him. He landed heavily, breaking an ankle, and was taken prisoner.