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

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W.O. Orne Ross Carruthers

Royal Canadian Air Force 432 Squadron

from:Hargrave Manitoba, Canada

W.O. Orne Ross Carruthers, served with the 432 Squadron as a rear gunner based out of East Moor North Yorkshire. His crew flew several missions near the end of the war in the spring of 1945. There is evidence from the ORB's for the 432 that their aircraft was the last 432 Halifax bomber to lift off the runway at East Moor in anger to Wangerooge. This was the last mission of World War II.

My father is the one sitting, he suffered from Parkinson's Disease after the war

My father with his crew, Dad is on the right



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