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Flt.Sgt. Stanley Eric Power
Royal Air Force 40 Squadron
from:London
My father Stan Power, was a flight sergeant during the war and in the last year he became a rear gunner in the Wellington bombers dropping supplies over Yugoslavia.
On his 19th sortie he was injured by shrapnel in his ankle and hospitalised.
His plane was WMF737 and his pilot was F/O Smart.
He lived a full and healthy life and died of old age in South Wales aged 87.