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P/O. Gordon William Hughes
Royal Australian Air Force 83 Squadron
from:Adelaide, South Australia
My father, Billy Hughes was an Australian navigator on a Lancaster as part of 83 Squadron Pathfinder Force.
He was shot down on his 50th mission on 11th of Novemeber 1944. He was lucky to survive having been badly burned during Long March and was an inmate of Stalag Luft 3.
My father died in 1982 aged 61.