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Mosquito KB267 Information
Type Mosquito Serial Number KB267 Squadron 627 X1D AZ-E Operation Rheydt Date 1 19th September 1944 Date 2 20th September 1944
Further Information
"Serial Range KB100 - KB299. 200 Mosquito B.MkXX. Part of a batch of 245 (including nine to the USAAF as F8) delivered by De Havilland (Toronto) Canada. Airborne evening of 19Sep44 from Woodhall Spa. Cause of loss not established. Crashed in flames when homebound near Steenbergen (Noor-brabant), where both are buried in Steenbergen-en-Kruisland Roman Catholic Cemetery. W/C G.P.Gibson VC DSO DFC KIA S/L J.B.Warwick DFC KIA Richard Morris's biography of W/C Gibson is recommended reading. S/L Warwick had completed two full tours prior to his appointment to RAF Coningsby as Station Navigation Officer, and was therefore screened from further operations unless he chose to volunteer. "
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------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html
"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor and you will have war."
(Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.)
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