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Sgt. John Harold Dyer
Royal Air Force 106 Squadron
from:Stathern, Leicestershire
(d.2nd Jan 1944)
John Dyer was my fathers brother, he joined the RAF as a wireless operator air gunner in 1942 going through training in 1943 on a variety of types - Dominies, Proctors, Bothas and Wellington all appear in his log book.
He moved on to Manchesters and finally Lancasters in August 1943 at 1661 Conversion Unit at Swinderby and then to 106 Squadron Metheringham in September 1943 flying on his first operation to Mannheim on the 23/9/43.
He was on his sixteenth op to Berlin when the whole aircraft and crew were lost on the 2nd January 1944, he was 21 years of age. The aircraft was JB 645 one of two lost on the same night