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227483 Sgt. Eric Harold Cooper Royal Air Force 214 Sqdn. from:East Stoke (d.24th July 1942) Eric Cooper was born on 14th August 1920 in a small Nottinghamshire village of East Stoke. He joined the RAF as a Volunteer Reserve on 4th January 1941, aged about 20.5 years. He did his 'square bashing' at Bournemouth before being selected for air gunner training at RAF Evanton. From graduating Evanton Eric was posted to 12OTU a Wellington OTU. At some point he would have been promoted to Sergeant AG. Eric arrived at 101 Squadron (Wellington) on 12th of June 1942 and was crewed with P/O Angel, Sgt Gerein, Sgt Howe and Sgt Morris they completed four operational trips when Eric was posted out to 214 Sqn (Stirling). Eric arrived at 214 Sqn on 5th July 1942 and on 11th July 1942 he found out his 'old' crew had gone 'down' at Kiel. Eric himself was killed in action just 13 days later on 24th July 1942 when his Stirling, piloted by P/O Jack D Peel, was attacked by a night fighter. All but one of the crew were killed. The wireless operator Sgt H C Fairhall was pulled out of the wreckage badly injured and was taken POW after treatment from the local Dutch doctor. Please type your message:      We recommend you copy the text about this item and keep a copy on your own computer before pressing submit. Your Name:             Email Address:       @ **Please type the first part our your email in the first box (eg. john.smith) the @ sign is added automaticallly, please type the second part in the second box (eg. gmail.com). Do not enter your full email in each box or add an @ sign or random spaces.**