Les Knight
(1921-1943)
Australian Air Force officer
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Leslie Gordon Knight, (7 March 1921 – 16 September 1943) was an Australian bomber pilot in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1943 for his role in Operation Chastise while flying with No. 617 Squadron RAF. Knight's crew, flying in N-Nan, attacked, hit and breached the Eder Dam, the second dam to be attacked, after his comrades had previously scored one hit and one miss.
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7 March 1921 Camberwell, Australia
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16 September 1943 (aged 22) Dortmund-Ems Canal, Free State of Prussia, Nazi Germany
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