Australian pilot's cool under fire wins DFC
Major Scott Watkins, an Australian Army Officer on secondment to the British Black Watch regiment, is to be awarded Britain's Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery.
He was flying a Lynx helicopter south of Baghdad last November when machine-gun fire hit the pilot Captain Keith Reesby.
Watkins took the controls and flew the helicopter through heavy fire for six minutes to get back to base.
It is rare for the Distinguished Flying Cross to be given to an army officer.
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