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Born in
British Columbia
in 1916, Hampton Gray joined the RCNVR (Royal Canadian Navy
Volunteer Reserve) in 1940 and took naval
air training in
England. He began operational flying with the Fleet Air Arm in 1942,
and was mentioned in dispatches for his daring during several
attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz as she lay in a
Norwegian fjord. Flying from HMS Formidable in the
Pacific in July 1945 he was awarded the DSC for sinking a
Japanese escort vessel. On 9 August he led eight aircrafts in an
attack at
Onagawa
Bay, and though his aircraft was severely damaged by enemy flak he
released his remaining bomb and sank the escort Amakusa
before crashing in the sea. He awarded the VC posthumously for
this action.
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