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Flt.Sgt. Derek Jones Bates
Royal Air Force 114 Sdqn.
from:Hale, Cheshire
(d.21st Feb 1945)
Derek Bates was a volunteer RAF navigator. He was in a Boston Mark IV taking part in an armed reconnaissance flight on 21st of February 1945. His plane was shot down in the sea off the coast of Falconara, Italy. Wreckage was found, but no trace of the crew. Crew names are on the Malta Memorial, Floriana, Valletta.