Distinguished Flying Cross
Pilot Officer .Gray STENBORG (N.Z. 402494), Royal New Zealand Air Force,’ No. 185 Squadron.
“Pilot Officer Stenborg. has displayed great determination and keenness to engage the enemy. One day in July, 1942, he.encountered a superior force’ of enemy fighters which were, acting as escort to bombers. Pilot Officer Stenborg attacked the enemy fighters, destroying two of them, and dispersed the remainder, thus enabling other .Royal Air Force fighters to attack the bombers.. A few days later he completed a. similar operation and again shot down two enemy fighters. Pilot Officer Stenborg has now destroyed eight.enemy aircraft.”
SECOND SUPPLEMENT to The LONDON GAZETTE of FRIDAY, the 24th of JULY 1942