Hicks Winford Gordon

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Winford Gordon Hicks is honored on the following 2 monument(s) in our database:

Canada's Bomber Command Memorial Panels

ISOB Winford Gordon Hicks

Name:

Winford Gordon Hicks

Rank:

Flying Officer

Serial Number:

J/22600

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Date of Death:

1944-01-29

State:

Pennsylvania

Cemetery:

Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Charlottenburg, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany

Plot:

Coll. grave 4. G. 11-15.

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Comments:

Winford Gordon Hicks was the son of Bynon and Ada M. Hicks, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served in the # 429 Bison Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force as a Flying Officer during World War II. He was Killed in Action on January 29, 1944, when his Halifax V LK746 aircraft, which took off at 00h11 from RAF Leeming, England, was shot down from 18000 feet by a Ju88 aircraft and crashed into trees near Teltow some 16 km southwest of the center of Berlin, Germany.

Source of information: www.rafcommands.com