231679 Sgt. Hubert Farewells "Slasher" Birks Royal Air Force 217 Squadron from:Sheffield My father Hubert Birks joined the crew of a 217 Squadron Coastal Command Beaufort.
On his first operational flight on the 9th of July 1941, they attacked a U-boat. The four crew: PO Graham, PO Stockley, Sgt Williams and Sgt Marshall, were later reported missing. My father joined 59 Squadron and then volunteered to fly with a crew of a Hudson to the far east. He spent three and a half years as Japanese POW Camp before returning to home to the UK. He past away in 1973, aged 62.
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