207674 F/O Thomas James Middleton Royal Air Force 514 Squadron from:Mildenhall (d.25th Jul 1944) Flying Officer Thomas Middleton was my uncle, married to my mother's sister, Kathleen. When I was young my mother and father told me many stories about the war, one of which that Tom was worried about the severe loss of life and that many of the men were not coming back. He warned my aunt that this might happen to him, which it did. I have my aunt's will and in it she mentions him missing presumed killed after a raid over Stuttgart on the night of 24/25 July 1944 but I cannot seem to find any reference to this raid. I have inherited the engagement ring he gave my aunt before the war, they never had any children, they were such a good looking couple.
Editor's Note: The raids which took place that night were a heavy raid on Stuttgart, an attack on the oil depot at Donges and on a flying-bomb site at Feray. Bomber Command lost 25 aircraft that night from the 1088 which took off.
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