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      • 139 Squadron, Squadron Leader Lionel Hubert Wakeford, DFC
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      • How Did This Mosquito Land?
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    • The Cost to The Occupied Countries
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97 Sqd Crews, Black Thursday

  • Crew: Billing
  • Crew: Brill
  • Crew: Cawdery
  • Crew: Coates
  • Crew: Deverill
  • Crew: De Wesselow
  • Crew: Flack
  • Crew: Kirkwood
  • Crew: Mackenzie
  • Crew: Mansbridge
  • Crew: Mooney
  • Crew: Nicholls
  • Crew: Owen
  • Crew: Pelletier
  • Crew: Riches
  • Crew: Roberts
  • Crew: Scott
  • Crew: Smith
  • Crew: Snell
  • Crew: Thackway
  • Crew: Thackway, Biographical Details
  • Crew: Wilson

Some of our crews

  • Alabaster & Eaton-Clarke Crew
  • Armstrong Crew
  • Baker (Valentine) Crew
  • Benton Crew
  • Brown (Kenneth) Crew
  • Brown (Kenneth) Crew, Lionel Boyton
  • Burns Crew
  • Chatten Crew
  • Clarke Crew
  • Clarke Crew, Dutch Eyewitness Crash Report
  • Coleman Crew
  • Covington Crew
  • Edwards Crew
  • Emerson Crew
  • Fletcher Crew
  • Garlick Crew
  • Johnson Crew
  • Jones (Doug) Crew
  • Marks Crew
  • McEgan Crew
  • Moore Crew
  • Moroney Crew
  • Munro Crew
  • Palmer Crew
  • Penny Crew
  • Reilly Crew
  • Robertson Crew
  • Seward Crew
  • Shnier Crew
  • Steven Crew
  • Stevenson Crew
  • Treacy Crew
  • Wakley Crew