{"id":4127,"date":"2013-08-24T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2014-02-21T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T09:05:08","slug":"raf-hero-receives-medal-68-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/news\/2013\/08\/raf-hero-receives-medal-68-years-late\/","title":{"rendered":"RAF Hero Receives Medal-68 Years Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By William Mills<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4128\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/uncategorized\/2013\/08\/raf-hero-receives-medal-68-years-late\/attachment\/109_5999\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4128\" alt=\"photo of three colour ribbon with brass clasp with upper cse letters Bomber Command\" src=\"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_5999-570x366.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_5999-570x366.jpg 570w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_5999-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_5999.jpg 1890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bomber Command campaign medal 1939-1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Roy Amerena of Steyning, West Sussex proudly displayed \u00a0yesterday the medal he deserved \u00a0more than 68 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Roy, who celebrated his 90th birthday a few weeks ago,\u00a0 has finally received his Bomber Command campaign medal.<\/p>\n<p>From September 1939 to May 1945 during the Second World War, 125,000 young men flew operationally for RAF Bomber Command.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4129\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4129\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/uncategorized\/2013\/08\/raf-hero-receives-medal-68-years-late\/attachment\/109_6004\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4129\" alt=\"photo of grey haired man holding small black box\" src=\"https:\/\/coopsy.co.uk\/thenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_6004-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_6004-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/the-news.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/109_6004-427x570.jpg 427w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roy Amerena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Roy took part in sixteen missions between October 1944 and April 1945 as the navigator of his seven man Lancaster plane flying night raids over Nazi Germany.<\/p>\n<p>55,000 of those young men never returned falling to German anti aircraft fire, known as &#8216; flak!&#8217;, and night fighters, as well as crashing in the dark and cold North Sea when struggling home after taking the fight to the enemy.<\/p>\n<p>After the war some RAF fighter pilots took the limelight with films like &#8216;Reach for the Sky&#8217; starring Kenneth More, becoming an instant hit. \u00a0However Bomber Command, immersed in controversy over wartime bombing tactics, were largely ignored and forgotten about.<\/p>\n<p>A campaign was started to justly recognise all those who fought in Bomber Command by awarding them a campaign medal.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty eight years later the medal finally arrived.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"position: absolute; overflow: hidden; width: 2px; height: 1px; left: -288; top: -277; z-index: 177;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; overflow: hidden; width: 2px; height: 1px; left: -288; top: -277; z-index: 177;\">\n<div style=\"position: absolute; overflow: hidden; width: 2px; height: 1px; left: -288; top: -277; z-index: 177;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opa024lord.xyz\">get more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By William Mills &nbsp; Roy Amerena of Steyning, West Sussex proudly displayed \u00a0yesterday the medal he deserved \u00a0more than 68 years ago. Roy, who celebrated his 90th birthday a few weeks ago,\u00a0 has finally received his Bomber Command campaign medal. From September 1939 to May 1945 during the Second World War, 125,000 young men flew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[375],"tags":[614,618,617,615,616],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bomber-command","tag-kenneth-more","tag-nazi-germany","tag-raf","tag-wwii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>RAF Hero Receives Medal-68 Years Late - THE NEWS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/the-news.uk\/index.php\/news\/2013\/08\/raf-hero-receives-medal-68-years-late\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"RAF Hero Receives Medal-68 Years Late - THE NEWS\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By William Mills &nbsp; Roy Amerena of Steyning, West Sussex proudly displayed \u00a0yesterday the medal he deserved \u00a0more than 68 years ago. 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