Add Information to Record of a Person who served during the Second World War on The Wartime Memories Project Website

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F/O. Gordon Leonard Hills DFM.

Royal Air Force 77 Squadron

from:Northallerton

(d.20th Dec 1943)

Gordon Hills was my Dad who had finished his tour and was due to come home for Christmas. However his best friend, and my godfather, Sqdn Leader Frank Bickerdyke, was asked to do a bombing mission to Frankfurt. His crew wouldn't let him go without them so they all volunteered! Five died, including my father and my godfather and two survived. It was a nightmare of a raid I understand as the Germans were waiting for them and casualties were high.



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