Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36584/supplements/3041. Pilot Officer Cyril Joe Barton (168669), 578 Squadron, Royal Air force Volunteer Reserve. On 30th March 1944 in an attack on Nuremburg, Germany and while 70 miles from the target, Pilot Officer Barton's Halifax bomber was badly damaged by enemy aircraft. A misinterpreted signal resulted in three of the crew baling out and Pilot Officer Barton was left with no navigator, air bomber or wireless operator. He pressed on with the attack, however, releasing bombs himself. On the return journey, as he crossed the English coast the fuel ran short and with only one engine working he crashed trying to avoid the houses of a village and was killed.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36584/supplements/3041. Pilot Officer Cyril Joe Barton (168669), 578 Squadron, Royal Air force Volunteer Reserve. On 30th March 1944 in an attack on Nuremburg, Germany and while 70 miles from the target, Pilot Officer Barton's Halifax bomber was badly damaged by enemy aircraft. A misinterpreted signal resulted in three of the crew baling out and Pilot Officer Barton was left with no navigator, air bomber or wireless operator. He pressed on with the attack, however, releasing bombs himself. On the return journey, as he crossed the English coast the fuel ran short and with only one engine working he crashed trying to avoid the houses of a village and was killed.