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John Cruickshank, the last surviving Victoria Cross holder of the Second World War, had a special connection with Pembroke Dock and its flying boat station. Mr Cruickshank, who has died aged 105, ...

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He made a daring raid on a U-boat, suffered 72 wounds and helped land his damaged seaplane. By Trip Gabriel Flight Lt. John Cruickshank was at the controls of a Royal Air Force plane on submarine ...

SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL said: “Courage is rightly regarded as the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all the others depend.” The truth of those words is highlighted by the heroics of RAF Flight ...

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BRITAIN’S last surviving World War Two Victoria Cross hero, John Cruickshank, has died aged 105. The RAF flight lieutenant won the medal for destroying a Nazi U-Boat while piloting a flying boat in ...

Britain's last surviving World War II Victoria Cross (VC) recipient has died aged 105. Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank, from Aberdeen in Scotland, received the VC for bravery during an attack on a ...

Flight Lieutenant Cruickshank, from Aberdeen, received the VC for bravery during an attack on an enemy submarine that left him seriously injured. A total of 181 people received Britain's highest ...

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Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank, VC, who has died aged 105, was the last surviving combatant to have received the Victoria Cross, the supreme award for gallantry, during the Second World War; he ...

Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank VC, after taking a flight in a Catalina aircraft at the RAF Leuchars Airshow in 2013 - Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank, VC, who has ...