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HENRY WILLIAM APARICIO

SERVICE NO. 1894252

Royal Air Force: Sergeant

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

297 Squadron, Royal Air Force

DIED: 06 June 1944

AGE: 20

HISTORICAL CONTEXT

He was a crew member of Albemarle Mk.V V1773, 297 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF).

They took off from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire at 19:00 on 6 June 1944 towing gliders for Operation Mallard (bringing reinforcements for 6th Airborne Division on the evening of D-Day).

He was killed when, after releasing the glider near Ranville, Calvados the aircraft was hit by a German anti-aircraft flak ship stationed in the Caen Canal and crashed near Biéville-sur-Orne, Calvados.

MEMORIAL LOCATION: Column 13

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