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There is a double thank you to be made to the kind people who helped with this - I received a very nice email from the son of Glen DuMars, emphasising that the fellow airmen from 278 squadron saved his fathers life, and without them , 3 generations of DuMars would not exist today. I will pass this on to the widow of P/O Hyde - I'm know she will be delighted to receive it.


P/O Hyde had a pretty eventful time with 278 through 1944 before moving to 91 Squadron 'Nigeria' in 1945. Looking through the orb entries, they conducted a lot of patrols out across the Wash, for lost airmen or aircraft, initially flying in Ansens , sometimes in a Walrus, a Moth and later in Spitfires. Glen DuMars was the only airmen recovered listed in the ORB by name, but other crews were picked up including some Luftwaffe. There are some telling entries of sweeping for crashed gliders around the time of Operation Market Garden.

I may trace him back through 1943 with 275 Squadron who were also an air sea rescue unit and seemed to share airfields and aircraft with 278.