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Re: Whirlwind P7062/HE-L
Serial
Units and Codes
Notes
Fate
P7062
39 MU
137 Sqn
18 MU
263 Sqn (HE-L)
To 39 MU 28.6.41.To 137Squadron 20.9.41. Damaged Cat B and returned to works 7.1.42. To 18 MU 11.7.42. To 263 Squadron 18.7.42.
Hit tree and crashed during practice attack during Army exercises on the Wroughton-Swindon Road and spun into ground near Wroughton19.2.43; F/Sgt Francis Leslie Hicks RAAF, (408207) aged 30 killed. Pilot is buried at Wroughton (SS. John the Baptist and Helen) Churchyard, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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