450324 - Unaccounted Airwomen & Airmen - 24-03-1945

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Additional name for Operation VARSITY.

BENNETT, Sergeant John Phillip, Army Air Corps (3185886), Glider Pilot, F Squadron, 1 Wing, Glider Pilot Regiment, Gosfield, Essex, Army Air Corps, 24 March 1945, Died, Lost on Operation Varsity, Age 30, Brockley, London, Reichwald Forest War Cemetery, Germany.

See: Failed To Return, Part 2, A-B/Hobson/N&MP/2019/p.578.

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MYANMAR.

1279868 ALLEN, Laurence Frederick & 925827 BROWN. Ronald Douglas.

ALLEN, Leading Aircraftman Laurence Frederick, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, (1279868), Gunner, 2963 Squadron, RAF Regiment, Meiktila, , Burma, India/Burma, 24 March 1945, Killed in Action (Ground), Killed by enemy mortar fire during the defence of Meiktila airfield, Age 23, Winterbourne, Berks, Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar (p.98).

BROWN, Leading Aircraftman Ronald Douglas, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, (925827), Gunner, 2963 Squadron, RAF Regiment, Burma, India/Burma, 24 March 1945, Killed in Action (Ground), Killed by enemy mortar fire during the defence of Meiktila airfield, Taukkyan War Cemetery, Myanmar (p.1021)

See: Failed To Return, Part 2, A-B/Hobson/N&MP/2019.

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