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W.O. Fredrick Burgess Dixon
Royal Air Force 180 Squadron
from:Newcastle Upon Tyne
(d.26th Nov 1943)
Warrant Officer (Wireless Op./Air Gunner) Frederick Dixon,
died on the 26th of November 1943
aged 23 serving with 180 Squadron, Royal Air Force.
He was a rear gunner on a Mitchell Bomber and was part of an attack on a V1 bomb site near Cherbourg. They attacked in the early hours of the morning but the weather obscured the target. They returned later but the Germans anticipated this and brought in additional anti aircraft batteries and he was shot down.