18-07-2013, 09:10 AM
Interesting story in today's news about Navigator Flight Sergeant David Millard Perkins from Honor Oak, one of four crew of a Boston bomber which was shot down in Italy in April 1945.
The bodies of the young crew members – Flight Sergeant David Millard Perkins, navigator; Flight Sergeant Alexander Thomas Bostock, radio operator; and the pilot, Flight Sergeant David Kennedy Raikes – were buried with full military honours at the Padua War Cemetery in northern Italy. They were all 20 years old when they were killed.
More about this story here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23344399
And here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10187...today.html
The bodies of the young crew members – Flight Sergeant David Millard Perkins, navigator; Flight Sergeant Alexander Thomas Bostock, radio operator; and the pilot, Flight Sergeant David Kennedy Raikes – were buried with full military honours at the Padua War Cemetery in northern Italy. They were all 20 years old when they were killed.
More about this story here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23344399
And here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10187...today.html