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W.O. Orne Ross Carruthers
Royal Canadian Air Force 432 Squadron
from:Hargrave Manitoba, Canada
W.O. Orne Ross Carruthers, served with the 432 Squadron as a rear gunner based out of East Moor North Yorkshire. His crew flew several missions near the end of the war in the spring of 1945. There is evidence from the ORB's for the 432 that their aircraft was the last 432 Halifax bomber to lift off the runway at East Moor in anger to Wangerooge. This was the last mission of World War II.