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Spafford, Frederick Michael
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<blockquote data-quote="John Robertson" data-source="post: 19712" data-attributes="member: 1"><p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>SURNAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Spafford </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>FORENAME</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Frederick Michael </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>UNIT</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>617 Squadron,R.A.A.F. </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>RANK</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>NUMBER</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>407380 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>DATE OF DEATH</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>16th September 1943 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>AGE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>25 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>GRAVESITE</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Reichswald Forest War Cemetery,Germany Coll.grave 16.B.13-16 </em></p> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>ADDITIONAL INFORMATION</strong></li> </ul> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>born 16.6.1918 Wayville,Adelaide,South Australia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>son of James Bourke and Vida Muriel Spafford</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>enlisted RAAF 14.9.1940 Adelaide,South Australia</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Sergeant 6.5.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>to England 27.5.1941</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>83 Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>455 Squadron</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>50 Squadron 24.4.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award DFM (20.10.1942) (Sgt)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flight Sgt 6.11.1942</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Pilot Officer 15.1.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>1660 CU 17.1.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>617 Squadron March 1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>award DFC (Dams raid)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Flying Officer 15.7.1943</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>air bomber</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Lancaster EE144</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Ladbergen (Dortmund-Ems Kanal)</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>hit by flak and crashed Altendorf,Germany</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><a href="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/index.php?media/f-spafford.8172/" target="_blank"><img src="https://www.specialforcesroh.com/data/xfmg/thumbnail/8/8172-a50e12cb1e23a0fe45befa977fb3a169.jpg?1591389212" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 300px; height: 300px" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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