Out on the wing to fight a fire

7th July 1941: James Ward awarded VC after climbing out of his aircraft mid air

Portrait of James Allen Ward RNZAF, awarded the Victoria Cross: Holland, 7 July 1941.

New Zealand Sergeant James Ward provided a dramatic account of his flight home from a bombing operation over Germany on the 7th July.

It was on one of the Munster raids that it happened. It had been one of those trips that you dream about - hardly any opposition over the…