Maxwell Kogon
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Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Kogon was a Canadian bomber pilot for the RCAF during WWII. On his first mission he was told to bomb Hanover. After he finished severe icing on his motors caused them to stop rotating. After crossing the English Coast, both of the engines of his Handley-Page Halifax failed and his airspeed indicator became unusable. He told his crew to bail out, but Maxwell stayed in the aircraft and successfully crash landed the aircraft without landing gear. Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Kogon mainly flew a Handley-Page Halifax but later he flew an Avro Lancaster. Flight Lieutenant Maxwell Kogon won a Distinguished Flying Cross from the RCAF on September first 1944.