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.
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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.
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