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Flt.Sgt. Louis Joseph Patrick "Lou" McCoy
Royal Australian Air Force RAF 44 Squadron
from:Noorinbee, Victoria, Australia
(d.22nd June 1944)
Louis Joseph Patrick McCoy Flight Sergeant RAAF No. 418722.
Lou enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War. He undertook basic training in Victoria, Australia and was sent to Canada for further flight training. He was assigned to the RAF by the RAAF when bomber air crews were called for by the UK Government during WW2 and flew with 44 Rhodesia Squadron in 1943 and 1944. His crew position was tail gunner in Lancaster LM592.
Sadly, he was killed when his bomber was shot down during a raid to Wesseling from the Squadron base at Dunholme in England on 22 June 1944.
He and his crewmates are buried in Woensol Cemetery (Commonwealth War Graves Section) in Eindhoven, Holland.
He was born and raised in Noorinbee near Orbost in eastern Victoria Australia and was only 20 years old when he died.