SMILEY Donald Allan Blake (F/L) RCAF n° R153706 (NCO) J23876 (Officier)

 

Distinguished Flying Cross
Annonce parue dans le London Gazette le 27 avril 1945

Throughout numerous operational sorties this officer has proved to be a fine fighter pilot. Subsequent to the invasion of Normandy he completed many dawn and dusk patrols over the beachhead, often during appalling weather. He has also taken part in a larger number of low level attacks in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire and has destroyed a considerable number of the enemy's motor transport, trains and barges. More recently Flight Lieutenant Smiley has been engaged in escorting bomber aircraft to the Ruhr Valley and other heavily defended targets in Germany. He has invariably displayed a fine fighting spirit, courage and determination and has destroyed two enemy aircraft.