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Fl/Sgt. Victor Alan Garland
Royal Air Force 429 Bison Squadron
from:Crayford, Kent
Victor Garland joined up in 1943 to Royal Air Force, trained in St Athans, Wales then transferred to a Canadian squadron, 429 Bison Squadron stationed in Leeming, Yorkshire.
The other Crew members were all Canadian:
Pilot Officer Doug Williams,
Wireless operator, Don Schurman,
Navigator, Wesley Milne,
Bomb, Aimer Jack Horner.
He initially flew Halifaxes as Flight Engineer, then went through the Heavy Conversion Unit at Wombleton or Honeybourne and was then flying Lancasters. After VE day the Canadians left and Victor was involved in bomb dispersal in the North Sea and repatriation of Prisoners of War from Belgium. He met and married Emilia Occardi, a Waaf who served on station alongside her twin Marie. He died in 2006.