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

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Flying Officer James Conway Burns DFM

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve Navigator 106, 99 Squadron

from:Gateshead, Tyne & Wear

(d.6th Oct 1945)

My uncle F/O James Conway Burns completed his tours with 106 squadron as a Navigator and transferred to 99 bomber squadron as a navigator in Consolidated Liberators based on the Cocos/Keeling Islands near Singapore. He flew five sorties in Liberator EW236 "K" delivering supplies to Kallang airfield Singapore, believed to be for prisoners of war. On the 5th operation his plane was reported missing in bad weather and no distress call had been recieved. Whilst two attempts were made to find the plane and survivors the weather turned them back and the crew and plane were never found. James is commemorated with his fellow crew members at Kranji war cemetery in Singapore.



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