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Honor Oak WW2 RAF Sergeant Perkins buried in Italy 68 years after plane shot down
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EdG


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18-07-2013 09:10 AM

Interesting story in today's news about Navigator Flight Sergeant David Millard Perkins from Honor Oak, one of four crew of a Boston bomber which was shot down in Italy in April 1945.

The bodies of the young crew members – Flight Sergeant David Millard Perkins, navigator; Flight Sergeant Alexander Thomas Bostock, radio operator; and the pilot, Flight Sergeant David Kennedy Raikes – were buried with full military honours at the Padua War Cemetery in northern Italy. They were all 20 years old when they were killed.

More about this story here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23344399

And here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10187...today.html

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oryx


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18-07-2013 08:20 PM

What interesting and moving articles - thanks for the link.

The poem about waiting for missing men to come back is heartrending!

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